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PRESENTED BY 



Official Report of the 
Proceedings 



OF THE 



Fourteenth Republican 
National Convention 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 

June 16, 17, 18 and 19, 1908 



RESULTING IN THE NOMINATION OF 



WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, of Ohio, for President 



AND THE NOMINATION OF 



JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT SHERMAN, of New York, 
for Vice President 



Reported by Milton W. Blumenberg, Official Reporter 



Published Under the Supervision of the General Secretary of the Convention 



Columbus, Ohio 
Press of F. J. He En 

1908 






Copyright 1908 
By John R. Malloy 



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ILLUSTRATIONS 



PAGE, 

Blumenberg, M. W 113 

Boutell, Henry S 142 

Brooker, Charles F 44 

Burrows, Julius C 32 

Burton, Theo. E 156 

Chamberlin, Walter H 24 

Clayton, Powell 187 

Cochems, Henry F 171 

Dover, Elmer 28 

Hanly, J. Frank 148 

Hart, Ernest E 50 

Hayward, William 21 

Hitchcock, Frank H 20 

Hopkins, Albert J 115 

Lodge, Henry Cabot 83 

Malloy, John R 89 

McCoy, C. B 162 

Mulvane, D. W 192 

Murphy, R. S 105 

New, Harry S 26 

Raymond, S. B 23 

Roth, J. C 25 

Scott, Nathan B 40 

Sheldon, George R , 36 

Sherman, James S 19 

Stone, W. F 46 

Taft, William H 7 

Upham, Fred W 22 

Warner, William 56 

Woodford, Stewart L 151 



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Officers of the Convention 



CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE 

HARRY S. NEW 

OF INDIANA 
SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE 

ELMER DOVER 

OF OHIO 
TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN OF THE CONVENTION 

JULIUS C. BURROWS 

OF MICHIGAN 
PERMANENT CHAIRMAN OF THE CONVENTION 

HENRY CABOT LODGE 

OF MASSACHUSETTS 
GENERAL SECRETARY 

JOHN R. M ALLOY 

OF OHIO 
SERGEANT-AT-ARMS 

WILLIAM F. STONE 

OF MARYLAND 




WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, of Ohio. 
The Candidate for President of the United States, 



WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT 



In William Howard Taft the Republican National Convention has 
nominated for the Presidency a man exceptionally equipped, not only by 
nature and training, but by experience and achievement, to perform the 
delicate and arduous duties of the greatest office in the gift of any people. 
For nearly thirty years he has given himself with single-minded devotion 
to the public service. He has displayed throughout a broad grasp of 
affairs, a literally dauntless courage, an unshakable integrity, a quick 
and all embracing sympathy, a deep and abiding sense of justice, a mar- 
velous insight into human nature, a sure and unwavering judgment, ex- 
ecutive ability of the highest order, and a limitless capacity for hard work. 
In all the years of its history, the Republican party has never selected as 
its leader in a National Campaign a man so tried beforehand, and so 
amply proved equal to the task. 

A FAMILY OF JURISTS. 

Mr. Taft comes of a family distinguished in the law and the public 
service. The first American Tafts came of the English yeomanry, 
transplanted across the Atlantic by the great upheaval for conscience's 
sake which peopled New England with its sturdy stock. In this country 
they turned to the study and practice of the law. Peter Taft was both 
a maker and an interpreter of laws, having served as a member of the 
Vermont legislature, and afterwards as a judge. Alphonso Taft, son 
of Peter, was graduated from Yale College, and then went out to the 
Western Reserve to practice law. He settled in Cincinnati, and it was 
at Mt. Auburn, a suburb of that city, on September 15, 1857, that his 
son, William Howard Taft, first became a presidential possibility. 

The boy grew up in an atmosphere of earnest regard for public duty 
too little known in these days of the colossal and engrossing material 
development of the country. His father earned distinction in the service 
of city and state and nation, going from the Superior bench, to which he 
had been elected unanimously, to the place in Grant's cabinet now held 
by the son, then, as Attorney General, to the Department of Justice, and 
finally into the diplomatic service, as minister first to Austria and then 
to Russia. His mother, who was Miss Louise M. Torrey, also came of 
that staunch New England stock with whom conscience is the arbiter 
of action and duty performed the goal of service. 

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O WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. 

HIS MOTHER'S INFLUENCE. 

It was her express command that sent him away from her last fall 
when both knew that she was entering upon the last stage of her life. 
He had promised the Filipinos that he would go to Manila and in person 
formally open their Assembly. It was to be their first concrete experience 
in self-government, and he, more than any other man, had made it pos- 
sible. If he should not keep his promise there was danger that the sus- 
picious Filipinos would impute his failure to sinister motives, to indif- 
ference or altered purpose, with result vastly unfortunate to them antl 
to us'. Mr. Taft saw all that very clearly, yet in view of his mother's 
health he would have remained at home. But she forbade. She said 
his duty lay to the people he had started on the path to liberty, and al- 
though it involved what each thought to be the final parting she com- 
manded him to go. He went and before he could return his mother 
had passed away. 

Much was to be expected of a boy of such parentage, and young Taft 
fulfilled the expectation. He began by growing big physically. He has a 
tremendous frame. The cartoonists have made a false presentment of 
him familiar to the country by drawing him always as a mountain of 
flesh. But if they had gone to the same extreme of leanness, and still 
honestly protrayed his frame they would have represented a man above 
the average weight. 

AT COLLEGE. 

Of course he went to Yale. His father had been the first alumnus 
elected to the corporation, and when young Taft had completed his pre- 
paratory course at the public schools of Cincinnati he went to New 
Haven for his college training. He was a big, rollicking, good natured 
boy, who liked play but still got fun out of work. He did enough in 
athletics to keep his 225 pounds of muscle in good condition, but gave 
most of his time to his studies. When the class of '78 was graduated 
Taft was its salutatorian, having finished second among 120. He was 
also elected class orator by the class. He was then not quite 21. 

He went back to Cincinnati and began the study of law in his' father's 
office, at the same time doing court reporting for the newspaper owned 
by his half-brother, Charles P. Taft. His salary at first was $6 a week. 
He did his work so well, however, that Murat Halstead, editor of the 
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, employed him to work for that paper, at 
the increased salary of $25 a week. 

While he was doing this he was keeping up his studies, taking the 
course at the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated in 
1880, dividing first honors with another student, and being admitted to 
the bar soon afterward. 



WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. V 

HIS RESPECTS TO A BLACKMAILER. 

That fall there occurred one of the most celebrated and characteristic 
incidents in his life. A man named Rose was then running a black- 
mailing paper in Cincinnati. He had the reputation of being a dangerous 
man. He had been a prize fighter, and was usually accompanied by a 
gang of roughs ready to assault any whom he wanted punished. Alphonso 
Taft had been the unsuccessful candidate for governor at that election, 
and Rose's paper slanderously assailed him. For once young Taft for- 
got his 1 judicial temperament and legal training, and instead of setting 
the law on the blackmailer he marched down to his office and gave Rose 
a terrific thrashing. 

Rose quit Cincinnati that night and his paper never appeared again. 
Young Taft had had his first spectacular fight, and it was in behalf of 
somebody else. 

It is not the purpose of this sketch to attempt a detailed biography of 
Mr. Taft. It merely seeks by a discussion of a few of the more import- 
ant events of his life to show what manner of man he is. They reveal 
him as a student of application and ability; a man with an abiding sense 
of justice, slow to wrath, but terrible in anger; courageous, aggressively 
honest and straightforward; readier to take up another's' cause than his 
own. This is a foundation on which experience may build very largely, 
and that is what it has done for Taft. 

THE CALL TO PUBLIC OFFICE. 

He was hardly out of his boyhood when he was called to public 
office, and in most of the years since then he has devoted himself to 
the public service. First he was assistant prosecuting attorney of Ham- 
ilton County, under Miller Outcalt, now one of the leading lawyers of 
Ohio. In 1881 he became collector of internal revenue for the first Ohio 
district, and demonstrated the same ability in business that he had shown 
in the law. A year later he resigned that office and went back to the 
practice of law, with his father's old partner, H. P. Lloyd. In 1884 he 
became the junior counsel of a Bar Committee to constitute testament 
proceedings against T. C. Campbell, whose methods of practicing law had 
brought on the burning of the Hamilton County Court House in Cin- 
cinnati. Though technically unsuccessful, Mr. Taft made a good reputa- 
tion from his conduct of this matter and Campbell was driven from 
Cincinnati. In 1885 he bcame assistant county solicitor. Two years 
later Governor Foraker appointed him Judge of the Superior Court, to 
succeed Judson Harmon who had resigned to enter President Cleveland's 
cabinet. 

In 1886 Judge Taft married Miss Helen Herron, daughter of Hon. 
John W. Herron, of Cincinnati. They have three children, Robert Al- 



10 WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. 

phonso, a student at Yale, Helen, a student at Bryn Mawr, and Charles 
Phelps, 2d, who attends the public schools in Washington. 

HIS JUDICIAL CAREER BEGUN. 

His appointment as Judge of the Superior Court was the beginning 
of the judicial career which was Taft's ambition, and for which he was 
so eminently fitted. He made such a record as a judge that at the close 
of his appointed term he was triumphantly elected for another term. But 
already he had attracted attention outside his state, and he had served 
but two years of the five years for which he had been elected when Presi- 
dent Harrison asked him to take the difficult post of Solicitor General 
of the United States. This was an office of the utmost importance, in- 
volving not only wide learning and tremendous application, but the power 
of clear and forceful presentation of argument. Two of the cases which 
he conducted as solicitor general involved questions of vital importance 
to the entire country. The first grew out of the seal fisheries controversy 
with Great Britain. Mr. Taft won against such eminent counsel as Joseph 
H. Choate who is widely recognized as a leader of the American bar. 
The other was a tariff case in which the law was attacked on the ground 
that Speaker Reed had counted a quorum when the bill passed the House. 
That, too, he won. It was during his term as solicitor general that Mr. 
Taft met Theodore Roosevelt, then civil service commissioner, and began 
the friendship which has continued and grown ever since and which has 
had such far-reaching influence upon the lives of both men. 

ON THE FEDERAL BENCH. 

Mr. Taft's record as solicitor general so crearly proved his fitness for 
the bench that after three years in Washington he was sent back to 
Ohio as judge of the Sixth Federal Circuit, a post generally recognized 
as a preliminary step to the Supreme Court, which was then the goal of 
his ambition. 

It was during his seven years' on the federal bench that Mr. Taft's 
qualities as a judge became known throughout the country. He was 
called upon then to decide some of the most important cases that have 
ever been tried in the federal courts, in the conduct of which he es- 
tablished an enviable reputation for learning, courage and fairness — 
three essential attributes of a great jurist. His power of application and 
his ability to turn off enormous masses of work received ample demon- 
stration during this time. It was in this period of his service that he 
rendered the labor decisions which have made him famous as an up- 
right and fearless judge. In his treatment of both labor and capital he 
showed that here was a judge who knew no distinction of parties when 
they appeared as litigants before him. He voiced the law as he knew 



WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. 11 

it and the right as he saw it, no matter where the blow fell or whom it 
struck. If sometimes the decisions went against what organized labor at 
that time believed to be its cause, it must not be forgotten that no 
clearer or broader statement of the true rights of labor has ever been 
made than in some of his judicial utterances'. Lawyers conducting litiga- 
tion in other courts on behalf of labor unions have often cited these de- 
cisions of Judge Taft in support of their contentions. Neither should it 
be forgotten that one of the most important and far reaching of all his 
judgments was that against the 'Addyston Pipe Company, in which for 
the first time the Sherman anti-trust law was made a living, vital force 
for the curbing and punishment of monopoly. When this case reached 
the Supreme Court, Mr. Taft received the distinguished and unusual 
honor of having his decision quoted in full and handed down as part of 
the opinions of the high court which sustained him at every point. 

PIONEERING THE ROOSEVELT POLICY. 

The Addyston Pipe decision marked the beginning of the struggle 
for federal control of interstate corporations which in the later years 
has come to be known as the "Roosevelt policy." Mr. Taft in an ad- 
dress to the American Bar Association at Detroit, in the summer of 
1895, had enunciated the principle on which President Roosevelt has 
made his great fight for the suppression of monopoly and the abolition 
of special privilege. Thus Mr. Taft pioneered the way for the "Roose- 
velt policy." 

BLAZING THE PHILIPPINE TRAIL. 

Since the settlement of the reconstruction question no more delicate 
or fateful problem has confronted American statesmanship than that of 
the Philippines. The sudden pitching of over-sea territory into our 
possession as a result of the war with Spain, created a situation not only 
unexpected but entirely without precedent. There was no guide for our 
statesmen. The path had to be hewed out new from the beginning. 
There was no crystalization of opinion among the American people as 
to what should be done with the Philippines. A considerable element 
was vigorously opposed to retaining them, but the vast majority demanded 
the maintenance of American sovereignty there. Among these, at first, 
the desire was undoubtedly due to the glamour of aggrandizement. The 
possibility of wealth somewhere beyond the skyline always catches' the 
imagination, and there can be no question that the great mass of the 
people moved, without serious thought of the consequences, toward 
American exploitation of the islands. 

But even at that early day there were a few — a very few — among 
the leaders of American thought and action, who saw clearly the re- 
sponsibility thrust upon the country by the adventitious possession of 



12 WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. 

the Philippines, and determined to meet it fully, no matter what clamor 
of opposition might arise. Among these President McKinley was one. 
Mr. Taft was another. Mr. Taft had been opposed to taking the islands. 
He was opposed to retaining them. More than all he opposed their ex- 
ploitation for American benefit. He believed that the Philippines be- 
longed to the Filipinos, and should be developed in the interest of their 
own people. 

SHOULDERING THE "WHITE MAN'S BURDEN." 

He saw the possibility of lifting a feeble, ignorant people into the 
light of liberty and setting them upon the path to intelligent, efficient 
self-government. That possibility reconciled him to the continuance of 
American authority over the islands, for none saw more clearly than he 
the chaos certain to result from immediate independence for the Filipinos, 
with its inevitable and speedy end in complete and hopeless subjection 
to some other power. Therefore when President McKinley asked him 
to go to Manila and undertake the difficult and thankless task of start- 
ing the Filipinos upon their true course, he sacrificed the judicial career 
which was his life's ambition and shouldered the "White Man's Burden."* 
It was in March, 1900, that he received his appointment as chairman 
of the Philippine Commission. 

Not many Americans have ever comprehended thoroughly the size 
of Mr. Taft's undertaking, or the full meaning of his achievement. 
Through a bungle in our first dealings with Aguinaldo and the Filipinos 
the entire native population of the islands had come to believe, with 
some reason, that the Americans were their enemies and had betrayed 
them. Mr. Taft arrived in Manila to find a people subdued by force of 
arms', but unanimously hostile, sullen and suspicious. They were still 
struggling, with the bitterness of despair, against the power in which 
they all saw only the hand of the oppressor. 

OVERCOMING THE BARRIER BETWEEN EAST AND WEST. 

Moreover, their leaders had been inoculated with the belief that be- 
tween west and east there is an impassable barrier which will always 
prevent the Occidental from understanding and sympathizing with the 
Oriental. The experience of generations had confirmed them in that belief. 
The only government in their knowledge was tyranny. The only edu- 
cation in their history was deceit. The only tradition they possessed 
was hatred of oppression, made concrete for them by their experience 
with western domination. 

That was what Mr. Taft had to face, and in three years he had 
overcome and changed it all. He did it by the persuasive power of the 
most winning personality the Filipinos had ever known. He met them 



WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. 13 

on their own level. He lived with them, ate with them, drank with 
them, danced with them, and he showed them that here was an Occi- 
dental who could read and sympathize with the Oriental heart. He 
gave them a new conception of justice, and they saw with amazement 
that it was even-handed, respecting neither person nor condition, a great 
leveler, equalizing all before the law. They saw Mr. Taft understanding 
them better than they had understood themselves, comprehending their 
problems more wisely than their own leaders had done, and standing 
all the time like a rock solidly for their interests. They saw him op- 
posed by almost all his countrymen in their islands, denounced and as- 
sailed with the utmost vehemence and venom by Americans simply be- 
cause he steadfastly resisted American exploitation and persisted in his 
declaration that the Philippines should be for the Filipinos. They saw 
him laboring day and night in their behalf and facing, death itself with 
cheerful resignation in order to carry on their cause. It was' a revela- 
tion to them. It was something beyond their previous ken, outside of 
all their experience, their education and their tradition. It convinced 
them. 

A REVELATION TO THE FILIPINOS. 

Mr. Taft gave them concrete examples of disinterestedness and 
good faith, which they could not fail to comprehend. He gave them 
schools and the opportunity of education, one of the dearest wishes of 
the whole people. No man who was not in the Philippines in the early 
days of the American occupation will ever understand thoroughly with 
what pitiful eagerness the Filipino people desired to learn. Men, wo- 
men and children, white haired grandfathers and grandmothers craved 
above everything the opportunity to go to school and receive instruction 
in the simplest rudiments. It is difficult to tell how deeply that eager 
desire touched Mr. Taft and how earnestly he responded to it. 

But education was only a beginning. Mr. Taft gave the Filipinos 
the opportunity to own their own homes. It was another concrete ex- 
ample of simple justice. When they saw him negotiating for the Friar 
lands, securing for the Filipinos the right to buy those lands on easy 
terms, it went home to the dullest among them that he was working 
unselfishly in their behalf. And they saw his justice in their courts. 
For the first time in all their experience the poorest and humblest Fili- 
pino found himself able to secure an even-handed honest decision, with- 
out purchase and without influence. 

Even that was not all. They saw Mr. Taft literally and faithfully 
keeping his promise and calling Filipinos to share in their own govern- 
ment, not merely in the subordinate and lowly places which they had 
been able to purchase from their old masters, but in the highest and 
most responsible posts. They saw men of their race called to member- 
ship in the commission, in the supreme court, and in all the other 



14 WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. 

branches of their government. And they believed the promise of even 
wider experience of self-government to come. 

AN UNPARALLELED ACHIEVEMENT. 

It was a practical demonstration of honesty and good faith such as 
the Philippines had never known. It was a showing of sympathy, jus- 
tice and comprehension which could not be resisted. Conviction fol- 
lowed it inevitably. The whole people knew — because they saw — that 
the Philippines were to be maintained for the Filipinos, and they recog- 
nized their own unfitness for the full responsibilities of independent 
self-government, and cheerfully set themselves to the task of preparation. 

That is the achievement of Mr. Taft in the Philippines. It has 
scarcely a parallel in history. What it cost him he paid without question 
or complaint. He had given up his judicial career when he went to 
Manila. But three times in the course of his service for the Filipinos 
the opportunity to re-enter it came to him, each time with an offer of a 
place on the supreme court which had been his life-long goal. Each 
time he refused it. Not even President Roosevelt understood the call 
to Mr. Taft from the Filipinos, and when he offered a supreme court 
justiceship to Mr. Taft he accompanied it with almost a command. But 
Mr. Taft declined. He saw clearly his duty lay to the people whom he 
had led to believe in him as the personification of American justice and 
good faith, and he made the President see it too. How the Filipinos 
felt was shown when on hearing of the danger that Mr. Taft might be 
called away from Manila, they flocked in thousands about his residence 
and begged him not to go. When ultimately he did leave the islands 
it was only to come home as Secretary of War, in which office he could 
continue his direction of Philippine affairs and make sure that there 
should be no deviation from the successful line of policy he had marked 
out. 

THE BIRTH OF A NATION. 

What is the result? The birth of a nation. The great, powerful 
American people, through the compelling agency of Mr. Taft, has paused 
ever so slightly in its triumphant onward march, to stoop down and 
lift up a feeble, ignorant and helpless people and set it on the broad 
highway to liberty. Vaguely, uncertainly, not comprehending clearly 
just what it was doing, not understanding always fully either the object 
or the means of accomplishment, but its heart right, and submitting 
confidently to the leadership of a man in whom it trusted implicitly, this 
nation has assisted in a new birth of freedom for a lowly and oppressed 
people. To William Howard Taft belongs the lion's share of the credit. 
Not often is it given to one man to do such work for humanity. Seldom 
is such altruism as his displayed. Many other honors have come to 



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him; many others will yet come. Among them all none will be of 
greater significance or of more lasting value than his work for the 
Filipinos. 

SECRETARY OF WAR. 

It is not important here to discuss in detail Mr. Taft's administra- 
tion of the War Department since he succeeded Elihu Root as Secretary 
of War on February 1, 1904. He has been at the head of it during the 
years of its greatest range of activity. He is not merely Secretary of 
the Army, as almost all his predecessors were. He is Secretary of the 
Colonies. All matters of the utmost importance affecting every one of 
the over-sea possessions of the United States come under his direction. 
The affairs of the army alone have often proved sufficient to occupy the 
whole attention of an able secretary. Mr. Taft has had to handle not 
only those and the Philippine and Cuban business, but to direct the 
construction of the Panama Canal as well. And at not infrequent in- 
tervals he has been called on to participate in the direction of other 
weighty affairs of government. He has been the general adviser of 
President Roosevelt and has been called into consultation on every im- 
portant matter which has required governmental action. 

The administration of canal affairs has required in a high degree 
that quality described as executive ability. The building of a canal is a 
tremendous enterprise, calling constantly for the exercise of sound 
business judgment. In it Mr. Taft has displayed in ripened proportions 
the abilities he foreshadowed when solicitor general and collector of 
internal revenue. 

BUILDING THE CANAL. 

When Mr. Taft became Secretary of War this country had just taken 
possession of the canal zone, under treaty with the republic of Panama, 
and of the old canal property, including the Panama railroad, by pur- 
chase from the French company. The work was all to do. The country 
expected the dirt to fly at once. The newspapers and periodicals were 
full of cartoons representing Uncle Sam in long boots with a spade on 
his shoulder, striding down to the isthmus to begin digging. But be- 
fore there could be any real excavation there was a tremendous task 
to meet. First of all the isthmus must be changed from a disease breed- 
ing pest-hole to a place where Americans could live and work in safety, 
The canal zone must be cleaned up, mosquitoes stamped out and the 
place made sweet and healthy. Habitations must be constructed for 
many thousands of workmen and their families. The cities of Panama 
and Colon, at the terminal of the canal, must be made thoroughly san- 
itary and supplied with water and sewers. An organization for the work 
of canal construction must be perfected and millions of dollars worth of 
machinery and supplies must be purchased and transported to the isthmus. 



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All these things, however, were of a purely business character. It 
required only time and ability to handle them properly. But there was 
another matter to be taken care of before these could be undertaken, 
and it was of a decidedly different nature. The Hay-Varilla treaty with 
Panama had secured to the United States all the rights necessary for 
complete control of the canal zone, and it became of the utmost im- 
portance to insure the maintenance of friendly relations with the people 
of the isthmus republic. It would certainly greatly increase the ordinary 
difficulties of building the canal if our people had to encounter the 
hostilities of the Panamanians. 

Here was a problem largely similar to that met by Mr. Taft in the 
Philippines, and calling for the exercise of the same qualities of tact, 
sympathy, justice and patience which he had exhibited in the Far East. 

It became his task to convince the Panamanian people and govern- 
ment that the United States had . not gone to the isthmus to build a 
rival state instead of a canal. As head of the War Department, and the 
superior of the Canal Commission, he has conducted all the affairs of 
this Government with the Republic of Panama since the ratification of 
the original treaty, and has succeeded in keeping our relations with the 
isthmus uniformly pleasant. Always, at least once a year, he has made 
a trip to the canal zone and examined affairs there with his own eyes. 
He but recently returned from the isthmus, the President having sent him 
there to settle a number of questions which required his personal con- 
sideration on the ground. Perhaps some conception of his responsi- 
bilities on the isthmus' may be had from the fact that since the actual 
work of canal building began there has been spent on it upward of 
$80,000,000, and every dollar of that .expenditure required and received 
his approval. 

REAL SELF-GOVERNMENT FOR CUBA. 

Aside from the Philippines and the Canal the greatest call that has 
been made upon Mr. Taft since he became Secretary of War came from 
Cuba. This was' a case largely similar to the Philippine problem. The 
American people have so long imbibed the theory and practice of self- 
government with their mothers' milk that they have developed a tendency 
to believe any people fitted for it who desire it. To us liberty is self- 
government, but to many a people with neither experience nor tradition 
of anything but practical autocracy self-government is only license. So 
it was with the Cubans. When our intervention had freed that island 
from the Spanish yoke we deemed it sufficient insurance of successful 
government for the Cubans to require them to adopt a constitution before 
we turned the island over to them. We ignored the fact that Cuba had 
no experience of constitutions or understanding of their functions. So 
when Cuba had conformed to our requirement we sailed away from 
Havana and left her to work out her own salvation unaided and untaught. 



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The result of that folly was inevitable and not long delayed. The 
Cubans having adopted a constitution they had not the slightest idea of 
what to do with it. They proceeded to govern under the only system 
of which they had any knowledge. The proclamation of the President 
took the place of the old royal decree. He created by his fiat the depart- 
ments of government which should have been established by law of 
Congress' under authority of the Constitution. Freedom in the American 
sense was unknown in Cuba. 

ORDER OUT OF CHAOS. 

The experiment was aimed toward chaos and its expectation was 
quickly realized. In September, 1906, the United States had to intervene 
again, and the task fell on Mr. Taft. Fortunate it was both for the 
United States and Cuba that it was so. With his experience of the Fili- 
pino as a guide and the magnetism of his personality as a lever, Mr. 
Taft placated the warring factions and secured peaceable intervention. 
Then he devised and set up a provisional government which all the 
Cubans accepted. 

It was the intention then to maintain the government only long 
enough to give the Cubans a fair election at which they might select 
their own government by full and free expression of their own will. 
But almost immediately the provisional government discovered the fun- 
damental mistake made by the earlier American administration. It 
found that the Cubans had been attempting to administer a govern- 
ment which never had been organized and existed only by virtue of the 
President's will. Patiently the provisional government set to work, 
under the direction of Mr. Taft, to provide the organization under the 
fundamental law which the Cubans had never known was the essential 
-of successful self-government. The work is now nearing completion, 
and when next the Americans quit Havana it will be after turning over 
to the Cubans a government machine properly established and fully 
equipped, whose operation they have been taught to understand and 
control. Thus, to two peoples has Mr. Taft been called upon to give 
instruction in practical self-government. 

The character of Mr. Taft is the resultant of strongly contrasting 
forces. He is a man who laughs and fights. From his boyhood good 
nature and good humor have been the traits which always received notice 
first. But all the time he has been capable of a splendid wrath, which 
now and then has blazed out, under righteous provocation, to the utter 
consternation and undoing of its' object. Because he is always ready to 
laugh, and has a great roar of enjoyment to signify his appreciation 
of the humorous, men who have not observed him closely have often 
failed to understand that he is just as ready to fight, with energy and 
determination, for any cause that has won his support. But it is al- 



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most always some other man's cause which enlists him. His battles have 
been in other interests than his own. First of all he is an altruist, and 
then a fighter. 

A COMBATIVE ALTRUIST. 

This combative altruism is Mr. Taft's most distinguished charac- 
teristic. As Secretary of War he has earned the world-wide sobriquet 
of "Secretary of Peace." He has fought some hard battles, but they 
were with bloodless weapons, and the results were victories for peace. 
The greater the degree of altruism the keener was his zeal, the harder 
and more persistent his battle. The greatest struggle of his career, in 
which he disregarded utterly his settled ambition, and cheerfully faced 
a continuing serious menace to life itself, was on behalf of the weakest 
and most helpless object in whose cause he was .ever enlisted — the 
Filipino people. That was the purest and loftiest altruism. 

But although this is the dominant trait of Mr. Taft, he is well known 
for other qualities. His judicial temperament, founded upon a deep- 
seated, comprehensive and ever alert sense of right and wrong; his 
courage, proved by repeated and strenuous tests ; his calm, imperturbable 
judgment, and his all embracing sympathy are characteristics that have 
been often and. widely noted. They are his by right of inheritance 
from generations of broad-minded, upright men and women. The de- 
velopment of his country has extended the range of his opportunity and 
given greater scope to his activities than was enjoyed by Alphonso Taft, 
his father, or Peter Rawson Taft, his grandfather, but in character and 
intellect he is their true descendant. 

The American people know Mr. Taft as a man of pervasive good 
humor, always ready with a hearty laugh, and quick to see- fun in any sit- 
uation. His other side has not often appeared, but he is capable of tre- 
mendous wrath. Nothing arouses it more quickly than unfaithfulness 
to a trust or an exhibition of deceit. Injustice in any form stirs him to 
the bottom instantly. He has a broad, keen, quick, all-embracing sympa- 
thy, always ready to respond to any call. His sense of justice is won- 
derfully quick-springing and alert. And he has a genuine fondness for 
work, which enables him to derive real pleasure from his task. These 
qualifications are the endowment of an unusually gifted man. The people 
know, because they have seen, his ability to turn off an enormous amount 
of work. They have seen him prove an exceptional executive ability. 
They have seen him manifest an equipment for the Presidency such as 
no other man has shown before his election to that office. In expe- 
rience, training and ability, Mr. Taft has amply proved his fitness for 
the chief magistracy of the nation. 




The 



JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT SHERMAN, of New York, 
Nominee of the Convention for Vice-President of the United States. 



JAMES S. SHERMAN 



James Schoolcraft Sherman was born in the City of Utica, New 
York, where he now resides, October 25th, 1855. His father was 
Richard U. Sherman also born in Oneida County, New York, by pro- 
fession an editor and also prominent in public life. 

Mr. Sherman was educated in the district schools, the Whitestown, 
New York, Academy and Hamilton College. He studied law and was 
admitted to the bar and practiced for some years. He was married in 
1881 to Carrie Babcock at East Orange, New Jersey. Three sons, Sher- 
rill, Richard U. and Thomas M. are living and are in business in Utica. 

Mr. Sherman is President of the Utica Trust and Deposit Company 
and is interested in several business enterprises. He is a regular at- 
tendant of the Dutch Reform Church of Utica, is treasurer of the 
church and chairman of its board of trustees. He is a member of the 
Fort Schuyler Club of Utica and also a member of the Royal Arcanum 
and the order of Elks. He is a trustee of Hamilton College, which col- 
lege gave him the degree of LL. D. He is also a member of the Union 
League, Transportation and Republican Clubs of New York City. 

Mr. Sherman has served twenty years in Congress and presided 
over the New York State Conventions of 1895, 1900 and 1908. He was 
elected Mayor of Utica in 1884. He has made frequent appearances in 
campaigns not only in his own district but throughout the United States. 
In Congress he has been prominent for years, his principal work being 
done on the Committees on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and on 
Indian Affairs, the latter of which he is Chairman. He has been fre- 
quently mentioned for Speaker of the House but has never made an 
active canvass for the place. It is conceded in both Senate and House 
that he is one of the most able presiding officers in either body. 



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Republican National Committee 

CAMPAIGN 1908 

FRANK H. HITCHCOCK, Massachusetts, Chairman. 
WILLIAM HAYWARD, Nebraska, Secretary. 
GEORGE R. SHELDON, New York, Treasurer. 
WILLIAM F. STONE, Maryland, Sergeant-at-Arms. 



Executive Committee 

Charles F. Brooker, Connecticut. 

T. Coleman du Pont, Delaware. 

William E. Borah, Idaho. 

Frank O. Lowden, Illinois. 

Charles Nagel, Missouri. 
Victor Rosewater, Nebraska. 

William L. Ward, New York. 

Edward C. Duncan, North Carolina. 

Boies Penrose, Pennsylvania. 



Advisory Committee 



Charles P. Taft, Ohio. 

Wm. Nelson Cromwell, New York. 

Cornelius F. Bliss, New York. 

W. Murray Crane, Massachusetts. 
Arthur I. Vorys, Ohio. 

R. A. Ballinger, Washington. 
Powell Clayton, Arkansas. 

John Hays Hammond, Massachusetts. 

Franklin Murphy, New Jersey. 

Frank H. Hitchcock, Chairman. 

Elmer Dover, Ohio, Secy. 

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HON. FRANK H. HITCHCOCK, of Massachusetts, 
Chairman Republican National Committee, 1908, 




HON. WILLIAM HAYWARD, of Nebraska, 
Secretary Republican National Committee. 



Republican National Committee 



1 9 O 8 



STATE. NAME. P. 0. ADDRESS. 



Arkansas POWELL CLAYTON Eureka Springs. 

California GEORGE A. KNIGHT San Francisco. 

Colorado CHARLES E. CAVENDER Leadville. 

Connecticut CHARLES F. BROOKER..'. Ansonia. 

Delaware T. COLEMAN DU PONT. Wilmington. 

Florida JAMES N. COOMBS. : Apalachicola. 

Georgia HENRY BLUN, JR Savannah. 

Idaho W. E. BORAH. 7.. .., Wallace. 

Illinois FRANK O. LOWDEN.^ Oregon. 

Indiana HARRY S. NEW.: Indianapolis. 

Iowa ERNEST E. HART Council Bluffs. 

Kansas D. W. MULVANE Topeka. 

Kentucky A. R. BURNAM..- Richmond. 

Louisiana PEARL WIGHT.'. New Orleans. 

Maine JOHN F. HILL/ Augusta. 

Maryland WM. P. JACKSON. '....S Salisbury. 

Massachusetts W. MURRAY CRANE.' Dalton. 

Michigan JOHN W. BLODGETT/. Grand Rapids. 

Minnesota FRANK B. KELLOGG.'^ St. Paul. 

Mississippi L. B. MOSELEY.r Jackson. 

Missouri CHARLES NAGELP^'......., St. Louis. 

Montana THOMAS C. MARSHALL.^ Missoula. 

Nebraska VICTOR ROSEWATER.rT Omaha. 

Nevada P. L. FLANIGAN..^ Reno. 

New Hampshire F. W. ESTABROOK... Nashua. 

New Jersey FRANKLIN MURPHY' Newark. 

New York WILLIAM L. WARD. fT Portchester. 

North Carolina E. C. DUNCAN, r. Raleigh. 

North Dakota JAMES KENNEDY. Fargo. 

Ohio A. I. VORYS.r-. Lancaster. 

Oklahoma C. M. CADE.r Shawnee. 

Oregon R. E. WILLIAMS. -r The Dalles. 

Pennsylvania BOIES PENROSE, r. Philadelphia. 

Rhode Island CHARLES R. BRAYTON.r Providence. 

South Carolina JOHN G. CAPERS..^ Greenville. 

South Dakota THOMAS THORSON.^ Canton. 

Tennessee NATHAN W. HALE. f. Knoxville. 

Texas CECIL A. LYON..< Sherman. 

Utah C. E. LOOSE..- Provo City. 

Vermont JAMES W. BROCK.:., Montpelier. 

Virginia ALVAH H. MARTIN /. Portsmouth. 

Washington R. L. McCORMICK.". Tacoma. 

West Virginia •. . . N. B. SCOTT...' Wheeling. 

Wisconsin ALFRED T. ROGERS... Madison. 

Wyoming GEORGE E. PEXTOX.r Evanston. 

Alaska L. P. SHACKLEFORD. /. Juneau. 

Arizona W. S. STURGIS.., Arivaca. 

District of Columbia ... SIDNEY BIEBER..< Washington. 

Hawaii A. G. M. ROBERTSON Honolulu. 

New Mexico SOLOMON LUNA Los Lunas. 

Philippine Islands HENRY D. McCOY Manila. 

Porto Rico R. H. TODD San Tuan. 

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The Local Committee and Its Work 



BY WALTER H. CHAMBERLIN. 



That Chicago has the reputation of "making good" !':s promises v\as 
demonstrated by the manner in which the Republican National Com- 
mittee was influenced to select Chicago as the place for holding the Re- 
publican National Convention of 1908. Some time prior to the meeting 
of the National Committee at Washington in December, 1907, plans 
were made by those interested to send a delegation to Washington for 
the purpose of securing the next Republican National Convention for 
Chicago. These plans had progressed so far as to result in the se- 
lection of the committee and to agree upon the amount of guarantee 
fund which would be offered to the National Committee. At this stage 
Mr. Fred W. Upham, who had been treasurer of the Local Committee 
during the convention of 1904, returned from Europe and his aid was 
sought. Mr. Upham advised strongly against sending a committee to 
Washington or guaranteeing any specific amount to cover the expenses 
of the convention and as a result of his advice the plans were abandoned 
and he and Mr. Samuel B. Raymond, chairman of the local committee 
for- the convention of 1901, joined in the following telegram which was 
sent to Washington: 

"Chicago wants the Convention. We offer Coliseum with 14,000 seats, if re- 
quired. We will pay all legitimate expenses of sub-committee pertaining to con- 
vention. Cannot raise campaign fund now. We refer to Mr. Schneider, treasurer 
of the convention fund in 1904. He knows what was done then and we will personally 
guarantee same amount." 

In addition to this private telegrams were sent to Mr. Frank O. 
Lowden, the member of the National Committee from Illinois, and as a 
result the National Committee voted to hold the convention for 1908 in 
Chicago, notwithstanding the fact that other cities were represented be- 
fore the Committee with certified checks payable to the National Com- 
mittee for more than enough to cover the expenses of the convention. 

At a meeting of the sub-committee on arrangements, of the National 
Committee, Mr. Upham was appointed chairman of the Local Com- 
mittee, Mr. Raymond, Vice Chairman, Mr. John C. Roth, Treasurer, 
and Mr. Walter H. Chamberlin, Secretary, with power to Mr. Upham 

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HON. FRED W. UPHAM, of Chicago, 
Chairman of the Local Committee. 




HON. SAMUEL B. RAYMOND, 
Vice-Chairman Local Committee. 



THE LOCAL COMMITTEE AND ITS WORK. 23 

to appoint the balance of the local committee. This committee subse- 
quently named consisted of the following gentlemen : 

F. M. BLOUNT, EDWARD F. MEYER, 

E. J. BRUNDAGE, H. I. MILLER, 

FRED W. BUSSE, T. E. MITTEN, 

D. A. CAMPBELL, JOHN R. MORRON, | 

CLYDE M. CARR, JAMES A. PATTEN, 

CHARLES G. DAWES, JAMES PEASE, | 

CHARLES DEERING, FRANK H. PIETSCH, 

GEORGE W. DIXON, JOHN S. RUNNELLS, 

MARQUIS EATON, J. HARRY SELZ, 

B. A. ECKHART, JAMES SIMPSON, 

D. R. FORGAN, JOHN M. SMYTH, 

JOHN M. GLENN, STEWART SPALDING, 

EDWARD HINES, JOHN A. SPOOR, 

SAMUEL INSULL MASON B. STARRING, 

THOMAS D. KNIGHT, WALTER H. WILSON, 
JOHN T. LENFESTY, 

A contract was at once made with the Coliseum Company for the 
use of the Coliseum for the convention and under the supervision of Mr. 
Arthur G. Brown, the consulting architect for the National Committee 
the work of remodeling the Coliseum was begun. 

The arrangement of seats and platform was changed somewhat from 
the 1904 Convention, the platform being located at the South end of the 
building. The delegates and alternates were seated on the level main 
floor, while the guest seats were arranged in amphitheatre style, rising 
from the main floor. 

The method of raising the funds was peculiar to the business methods 
of Mr. Upham. The business houses of Chicago were divided into busi- 
ness classifications, and one or more gentlemen assigned to each class. 
As rapidly as the contributions came in a card was made out with the 
subscriber's name and address and the amount subscribed. The cards 
were kept in business classifications so that Mr. Upham could at any 
time inform an intending subscriber as to the amount subscribed by 
others in the same line of business. It was announced at the beginning 
of the canvass that one ticket for each session of the convention would 
be given for each one hundred dollars subscribed and this rule was 
adhered to. 

A sufficient amount was collected so that after paying all bills of 
the National Committee, a dividend of 18 per cent, was declared and 
returned to the subscribers. This was unique in the history of public 
enterprises in Chicago. 

An "Official Order of Business" was published under the direction 
of Mr. Herman L. Palmer and distributed free to each delegate and 
alternate of the convention. It contained the names of the various com- 
mittees, photographs of the officers of the National Committee and the 



24 THE LOCAL COMMITTEE AND ITS WORK. 

Local Committee, the Officers of the Convention, the official order of 
business for each day, tally sheets and a large amount of data of previous 
conventions. The cover was beautifully executed in colors with a cut 
of the White House at the top and the Coliseum at the bottom. 

On Sunday, June 14, 1908, the National Committee was entertained 
at luncheon at the South Shore Country Club by the Local Committee; 
the members of the latter committee furnishing their automobiles for 
the transportation of the guests. About 75 members and guests were 
entertained. 

During the sessions of the convention Mr. Upham provided in one 
of the anterooms of the convention hall an elaborate luncheon for the 
members of the National Committee and such guests as they chose to 
invite. 

From the expressions of those in position to judge, the work of the 
local committee was perfectly satisfactory. Nothing more need be said. 




MR. WALTER H. CHAMBERLLV 
Secretary Local Committee, 




MR. JOIIX C. ROTH, 
Treasurer Local Committee. 



PROCEEDINGS 

OF THE 

Republican National Convention 

HELD IN 

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 

June 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th, 1908 



THE FIRST DAY 

OPENING EXERCISES — THE CALL— SELECTION OF TEM- 
PORARY CHAIRMAN, JULIUS C. BURROWS, OF MICHIGAN, 
AND HIS ADDRESS — TEMPORARY OFFICERS — STAND- 
ING COMMITTEES. 



CONVENTION HALL 

The Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois, June 16, 1908. 

Mr. Harry S. New, of Indiana, Chairman of the Republican National 
Committee (at 12:25 o'clock p. m.). — The Convention will come to order. 

The hour has arrived for the representatives of the Republican 
party to meet in its fourteenth national convention at the end of almost 
twelve consecutive years of the most brilliant administration in the history 
of the world. (Applause.) There are present in this audience today 
people who participated in the party's first convention, and the accom- 
plishments of that party within so brief a span as the life of men yet 
living are almost beyond belief. We are met here to assert our pride 
in what has been done, to approve the achievements of the past, and 
more especially to commend and endorse the administration of Theo- 
dore Roosevelt (applause) and those policies which under his splendid 
administration have become known to the people of this land as the 
policies of the "square deal." (Applause.) 

The Right Reverend Bishop Muldoon will lead us in prayer. 

PRAYER OF RIGHT REVEREND P. J. MULDOON, V. G. 

The Right Reverend P. J. Muldoon, V. G., of Chicago, Illinois, 
offered the following prayer: 

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26 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. 
Amen. 

O, Almighty and Eternal God, we humbly beseech Thee mercifully 
to give ear to the prayers here offered by Thy servants in behalf of 
the whole nation. 

We humbly implore Thee to bless, guide, and in Thy wisdom, direct 
the deliberations of this convention for the greater peace, security, and 
happiness of the entire people. Accept these prayers to the glory of 
Thy name and the good of our souls. Grant to us all. peace, purity, 
and patriotism through our Lord Jesus Christ who taught us to pray 
to Thee, saying, "Our Father, who are in Heaven, hallowed be Thy 
name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in 
Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our tres- 
passes as we forgive those who trespass against us. • And lead us not 
into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. 

In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. 
Amen. 

PRESENTATION OF GAVEL. 

Mr. Fred W. Upham (chairman of the Chicago Committee on 
Arrangements). — On behalf of the Chicago Committee on Arrange- 
ments I present to you this gavel, made from a log from old Fort 
Dearborn. We wish you to accept it not only as a token of our re- 
spect, but of our real affection. 

Mr. New. — On behalf of the Convention I accept the historic 
gavel presented by the gentleman from Chicago. 

CALL FOR THE CONVENTION. 

Mr. New. — The call for the convention will now be read. 
Mr. John R. Malloy, of Ohio, read the cail as follows: 

OFFICIAL CALL FOR THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CON- 
VENTION TO BE HELD JUNE 16, 1908. 

To the Republican Electors of the United States : 

In accordance with established custom and in obedience to instruc- 
tions of the Republican National Convention of 1904, the Republican 
National Committee now directs that a National convention of delegated 
representatives of the Republican party be held in the city of Chicago, 
in the State of Illinois, at twelve o'clock noon, on Tuesday, the 16th 
day of June, 1908, for the purpose of nominating candidates for Presi- 
dent and Vice-President, to be voted for at the Presidential election, 
Tuesday, November 3, 1908, and for the transaction of such other busi- 
ness as may properly come before it. 

The Republican electors of the several States and Territories includ- 




HON. HARRY S. NEW, of Indiana, 
Chairman of the National Committee, and of the Sub-Committee on Arrangements. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION 



27 



ing Hawaii, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Porto Rico, and the 
Philippine Islands, and all other electors, without regard to past political 
affiliation, who believe in the principles of the Republican party and 
endorse its policies, are cordially invited to unite under this call in the 
selection of delegates to said Convention. 

Said National Convention shall consist of four delegates-at-large 
from each State, two delegates for each Representative-at-large in the 
Congress, two delegates from each Congressional district and from each 
of the Territories of Arizona, New Mexico, and Hawaii, two delegates 
from the District of Columbia, and two delegates each from Alaska, Porto 
Rico, and the Philippine Islands. For each delegate elected to this Con- 
vention an alternate delegate shall be chosen, to serve in case of the 
absence of his principal. 

The delegates-at-large and their alternates shall be elected by popu- 
lar State and Territorial conventions, of which at least thirty days' 
notice shall have been published in some newspaper or newspapers of 
general circulation in the respective State or Territory. 

The Congressional district delegates shall be elected by conventions 
called by the Republican Congressional Committee of each district, of 
which at least thirty days' notice shall have been published in some news- 
paper or newspapers of general circulation in the district ; provided, 
that in any Congressional district where there is no Republican Con- 
gressional Committee, the Republican State Committee shall be substi- 
tuted for and represent the Congressional Committee in issuing said 
call and making said publication ; and provided, that delegates both from 
the State-at-large and their alternates and delegates from each Congres- 
sional district and their alternates, may be elected in conformity with 
the laws of the State in which the election occurs, provided, the State 
Committee or any such Congressional Committee so direct; but pro- 
vided, further, that in no State shall an election be so held as to pre- 
vent the delegates from any Congressional district and their alternates 
being selected by the Republican electors of that district. 

The election of delegates from the District of Columbia shall be 
held under the direction and supervision of an election board composed 
of Mr. Sidney Bieber, Mr. Percy Cranford, and Mr. George F. Collins, 
of the District of Columbia. This board shall have authority to fix 
the date of said election, subject to prior provisions herein, and to 
arrange all details incidental thereto ; and shall provide for a registra- 
tion of the votes cast, such registration to include the name and resi- 
dence of each voter. 

The delegates from the Territories of Arizona, New Mexico. Hawaii, 
and from Alaska, shall be selected in the manner of electing delegates- 
at-large from the States, as provided herein. 

The delegates from Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands shall be 
elected in conformity with certain rules and regulations adopted by this 



28 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

Committee, copies of which are to be furnished to the governing com- 
mittee of the Republican party in Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands. 

All delegates shall be elected not earlier than thirty days after the 
date of this call, and not later than thirty days before the date of the 
meeting of the next Republican National Convention. 

The credentials of each delegate and alternate must be forwarded 
to the Secretary of the Republican National Committee, at Washington, 
D. C, at least twenty days before the date fixed for the meeting of the 
Convention, for use in making up its temporary roll. 

In any case where more than the authorized number of delegates 
from any State, Territory or delegate district are reported to the Secre- 
tary of the National Committee, a contest shall be deemed to exist, and 
the Secretary shall notify the several delegates so reported, and shall 
submit all such credentials and claims to the whole . Committee for de- 
cision as to which delegates reported shall be placed on the temporary 
roll of the Convention. 

All notices of contest shall be submitted in writing, accompanied 
by a printed statement setting forth the grounds of contest, which must 
be filed with the Secretary of the Committee twenty days prior to the 
meeting of the National Convention. 

Harry S. New, Chairman. 

Elmer Dover, Secretary. 

Washington, D. C, December 7, 1907. 

SELECTION OF TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. 

Mr. New. — The Republican National Committee recommends for 
Temporary Chairman of the Convention the Honorable J. C. Burrows, 
of Michigan. (Applause.) 

Mr. Merlin E. Olmsted, of Pennsylvania. — I move that the recom- 
mendation of the National Republican Committee in respect to the selec- 
tion of a Temporary Chairman be approved. 

Mr. John W. Blodgett, of Michigan. — On behalf of the State of 
Michigan I second the motion. 

The motion was unanimously agreed to. 

Mr. New. — Gentlemen of the Convention, I have the honor to pre- 
sent the Honorable Julius Caesar Burrows, your Temporary Chairman. 
(Applause.) 

ADDRESS OF THE TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. 

The Temporary Chairman (Mr. J. C. Burrows, of Michigan.)— 
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: Another chapter in 
our national history under Republican administration is soon to be con- 
cluded, and conforming to party usage long established this convention 
of 980 delegates and their alternates, chosen by the Republican electorate 




HON. ELMER DOVER, of Ohio, 
Secretary of the National Committee, and of the Sub-Committee on Arrangements. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 29 

from every State and Territory within the confines of the Republic, 
meets in this high council to submit the record of its achievements to 
the review of the American people and make fresh avowal of its faith 
in the principles and policies of the Republican party. 

The framers of the Federal Constitution wisely provided that all 
governmental power should be lodged with and retained by the people, 
and that their chosen representatives selected to administer the affairs 
of Government should be vested with only a limited tenure of official 
life, and at regular and stated periods render an account of their stew- 
ardship to their rightful sovereign, that the administration of public 
affairs, through the instrumentality of individuals and parties, should 
at all times conform to and reflect the dominant judgment of the Am- 
erican people. (Applause.) 

To this end the constitutional term of the Executive office is limited 
to four years, the senatorial to six, with a third of its membership sub- 
ject to change every two years, while the service of Members of the 
National House of Representatives, the immediate and direct sponsors 
of the people, is restricted to the brief period of two years. Thus in 
this free representative Government all power over officials, parties, 
and policies rests at all times with the supreme electorate, confirming 
the declaration of Abraham Lincoln that this is in fact a "government of 
the people, by the people, and for the people." (Applause.) 

In the approaching election, a President and Vice-President of the 
United States, a full membership of the National House of Repre- 
sentatives, consisting of 393 Members and Delegates, and 30 United 
States Senators from as many different States are to be chosen. The 
result, involving as it does the control of both the executive and legis- 
lative branches of the National Government, with the opportunity for 
a change of parties and policies, is of transcendent importance and far- 
reaching consequences, involving both the States and the nation. (Ap- 
plause.) 

Four years ago the Republican Party in national convention sub- 
mitted the record of its achievements to the American people, announced 
its policies for the future, and, invoking continuance of public favor, 
placed in nomination for the office of President and Vice-President of 
the United States, Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks, who 
were elected and the platform approved by a popular vote of 7,623,485, 
a record unexampled in the history of political parties since the founda- 
tion of the Government, receiving the indorsement of 32 States out of 
the 45, with but 13 in opposition. (Applause.) 

In view of this indorsement, it becomes pertinent and opportune to 
inquire, What has the Republican Party done in the last four years of 
governmental control — in many respects the most remarkable and bril- 
liant in the history of the party and the country — to forfeit public con- 
fidence or create distrust in its capacity for future administration? Al- 



30 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

though some untoward and unforseen conditions have beset the Republic 
during this period, yet these have been met and overcome with alacrity 
and courage, and the country has marched steadily onward in its match- 
less course of industrial triumphs. The wise and beneficent legislation 
of the Republican Party during the long years of its ascendency and ad- 
ministration of national affairs laid the foundation for the public weal 
so securely that no disquieting condition, not even a temporary panic r 
which necessarily touches the mainspring of all industrial life, could ar- 
rest the country's resistless advance. (Applause.) 

THE COUNTRY'S GROWTH. 

Since the last national Republican convention, four years ago, our 
population has increased from 81£ millions to 87| millions, while more 
than 4 millions of immigrants from every quarter of the globe have found 
welcome to our shores and protection under our flag. 

Our flocks and herds have increased in value from 2,998 million dol- 
lars to 4,331 millions; our farm products from about 6 billion dollars 
to 1\ billions. 

The output of coal from 314 million tons to 420 millions. 

Our product of gold from 74 million dollars in 1903, to 90 millions 
in 1907. 

The accumulation in savings banks of 2,815 million in 1903 was aug- 
mented to 3,495 millions in 1907. 

The deposits in all banks in 1903, aggregating 9,553 million, reached 
the fabulous sum of 13 billions in 1907. 

Nearly four million spindles in our cotton mills were added, and 
the domestic cotton used in our factories in 1907 amounted to over 5 
million bales, as against 3,924,000 bales in 1903. 

The importations of raw silk to supply American mills increased from 
15 million pounds in 1903 to nearly 19 million pounds in 1907. 

In spite of the disquieting conditions incident to the regulation of 
rates on interstate railroads, 20 thousand miles of new trackage have 
been added in the past four years. 

The tonnage of vessels passing through the Sault St. Marie Canal 
has increased from less than 28 millions in 1903 to 44 millions in 1907. 

The output of pig iron, the barometer of trade, in 1907 was 25,781,000 
tons, as against 18 million tons in 1903, and our exports of iron and 
steel and manufactures thereof increased from $96,642,000 in 1903 to 
$181,531,000 in 1907. 

Nearly 4,000,000 spindles in our cotton mills were added, and the 
domestic cotton used in our factories in 1907 amounted to over 5,000.000 
bales as against 3,924,000 bales in 1903. 

Our exports of manufactures advanced from 468 million dollars in 
1903 to 740 millions in 1907. 

Our imports of materials for use in domestic manufacture increased 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 31 

from 330 million dollars in 1903 to 477 millions in 1907, while our exports 
in the calendar year of 1907 were nearly 2 billion dollars, an increase of 
32 per cent over those of four years ago. 

The mills and factories temporarily closed by reason of financial dis- 
turbances are rapidly resuming operations, calling labor back to profit- 
able employment. 

This record of material activity in field and forest, factory and farm, 
mines and mills during the last four years might be indefinitely extended, 
but this will suffice to show the development and robust condition of our 
industrial life. 

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS OF GOVERNMENT. 

The nine great Executive Departments of the Government, through 
which the head of the nation speaks and acts, have advanced with steady 
and resolute steps within the sphere of their activities, presenting a record 
of achievements during the last four years of intelligent and progressive 
administration unexampled in the history of the Government. (Applause.) 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 

The Agricultural Department has continued its work in promoting 
the interest of the farmers by diversifying their products ; supplying new 
and valuable seeds and plants especially adapted to our climate and soil ; 
eradicating diseases which infest and destroy animal and vegetable life ; 
developing the beet-sugar industry from a production of 481,209,087 
pounds in 1903-4 to 927,256,430 in 1907-8; enforced the pure food law, 
enhancing the value of farm products, and conserving the health of all 
our people; distributed during the year 1907 nearly 17 million bulletins; 
provided for over 2,000 scientists to gather information for the benefit 
of agriculture ; protected our forest reserves from the ravages of fire ; 
converted the arid lands and waste places into fertile fields and blossom- 
ing gardens ; extended our producing area for grains westward into 
the dry regions, so that nearly 50 million bushels a year are being grown 
in territory heretofore unproductive, and in every way possible conserv- 
ing the natural resources of the country for ourselves and the generations 
to come. 

COMMERCE AND LABOR. 

The Department of Commerce and Labor, organized in 1903, has 
been active and potential in extending our commerce and protecting our 
labor. It has dispatched messengers to foreign countries, particularly to 
South America and the Orient, to ascertain the needs and tastes of the 
people, with a view of increasing our trade. The domestic exports, 
which in 1903 aggregated 1,392 million dollars, will, it is estimated, in 
1908 aggregate about 1,870 millions, showing an increase practically to 
every country on the globe. It has established a system of recording 



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the internal commerce of the country on the Great Lakes and at im- 
portant interior centers. It has brought about more intimate relations 
between the manufacturers of the United States and buyers abroad, and 
aided materially in the extension of foreign markets for our surplus 
manufactures. (Applause.) 

It has co-operated in the beneficent work of arbitration to avert or 
terminate strikes and promote the interests of our laboring people. Con- 
gress has wisely co-operated with and supplemented the work of this 
Department by enacting a law for the better protection of seamen. It 
has provided for an investigation into the conditions of working women- 
and children; amended and strengthened the law to prevent the im- 
portation of contract labor, and provided a plan for the further exclusion 
of that class of Asiatic immigration which enters into competition with 
American workmen, and enacted a law limiting the hours of labor of 
employees engaged in railway train service and of railway telegraphers.. 

The Congress just closed re-enacted the law passed ty the Fifty- 
ninth Congress to conform to the opinion of the Supreme Court, making 
common carriers liable for accidents to their employees engaged in inter- 
state commerce. It has enacted a law for the further protection of the 
life of railroad employees in their hazardous occupation, and provided- 
compensation for laborers and mechanics who may be injured in the 
service of the Government, making provision for their families in the 
event of death in the course of their employment. (Applause.) It has 
enacted a model child-labor law for the District of Columbia. It has* 
directed a thorough investigation into the working conditions of the em- 
ployees of the telegraph and telephone companies doing interstate bus- 
iness ; and, in response to the urgent appeal from both capital and labor, 
Congress, before its adjournment, appropriated $150,000 for an investiga- 
tion into the cause of mine disasters, with a view of promoting the safety 
of workers in our mines. (Applause.) 

It is within bounds to say that no previous sessions of Congress have 
displayed a more active or intelligent interest in the needs of the wage- 
earners than the past three sessions, nor has there heretofore in the 
same length of time been as much important and progressive legislation 
in the interests of this class of our fellow-citizens. (Applause.) 

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. 

The work of the Department of the Interior has been prosecuted 
under the present Administration with intelligence and vigor. During 
the past year over 2 million acres of coal lands have been restored to the 
public domain. Fences unlawfully closing public lands have been re- 
moved from 3,518.583 acres, and steps are now being taken to remove 
from such inclosures 3,763,186 acres more. 

During the past five years $516,501 have been collected for timber 




HON. JULIUS C. BURROWS, of Michigan, 

Temporary Chairman of the Convention and Chairman of the Committee to Notify 

the Nominee for Vice-President. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 33 

trespasses upon the public land, and $510,681 realized upon judgments 
and claims compromised. 

During the last five years 8214 fraudulent land entries have been 
canceled, restoring to the public domain 1,314,240 acres. From July 1, 
1902, to May 1, 1908, deeds for 160 acres each have been granted to 
275,333 homestead settlers on the public domain, covering 44,053.280 
acres. 

Since July 1. 1906, 171,047 original homestead and desert-land entries 
have been made, embracing 28,375,400 acres, carrying out the avowed 
policy of the President to prevent the monopoly of our public lands 
and place a family and make a home on every 160 acres of our public 
domain. It is estimated that the reclamation act will bring into cultiva- 
tion and occupancy a quarter million acres of land now desert and un- 
inhabitable, to be fashioned into farms for our people ; and this vast area 
will be brought into cultivation without imposing the loss of a single 
dollar to the National Treasury, as the land reclaimed is assessed and 
the owner must return to the Treasury the cost of reclamation. 

Under this act the Government has constructed 2,000 miles of canals, 
56 tunnels, and 389 miles of wagon roads into heretofore inaccessible 
regions, aggregating an expenditure of over $1,000,000 per month. As a 
result of the operations of the Reclamation Service new towns are spring- 
ing up and 14,000 people have already taken up their residence in what 
was once regarded an uninhabitable desert. 

The work of the Pension Bureau has been brought up-to-date. The 
labor has increased, but the expense of administration during the last 
four years has decreased nearly $700,000. The force has been reduced 
from 2,000 to 1,400. and yet the number of certificates issued during the 
last twelve months has been greater than any previous twelve months 
since the Bureau was established, nearly 400,000 having been issued during 
the past year. (Applause.) 

The act of June 27. 1890, was the first disability law in the history 
of the world granting a pension to soldiers and sailors because of their 
need of help, without requiring proof of disability incurred in service in 
the line of duty, and the act of February 6, 1907, granting pensions to 
all soldiers and sailors who served in the Civil war and in the Mexican 
war is a measure of justice and generosity unexampled in the annals of 
a grateful people. The total number of pensioners on the rolls is now 
Slightly in excess of 950.000, and the average amount paid out in pensions 
in a month is nearly 13 million dollars, and in 1907 $138,155,412 were 
paid to pensioners. 

POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT. 

During the past four years the Post-Office Department has continued 
its beneficent work in the interest of all the people, until on the 1st of 
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16,369 post-offices ; complete rural service offices established in 793 counties, 
saving $9,500,000 in the discontinuance of post-offices ; and in every way 
carrying the blessings of the free-delivery system to our rural population, 
and thus promoting the happiness and contentment of the people, and ar- 
resting the unhealthy tendency to exchange country for city life. 

A measure providing for postal savings banks, recommended by the 
Postmaster-General, has secured the favorable action of the Senate Com- 
mittee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, and will undoubtedly receive 
the approval of Congress at its next session. It is to be regretted that a 
measure to provide for the carrying of our mails to the Orient and the 
South American countries in American ships should have failed, but its 
passage in the near future is confidently expected. The statement made 
by Secretary Root upon his return from the South American countries is 
startling that "During the past summer I entered all the great ports of 
the southern continent and I saw only one ship besides the cruiser that 
carried me, flying the American flag." 

Further commenting, he says : 

"The best way to travel between the United States and South America 
is to go by way of Europe, crossing the Atlantic twice. 

"In the year ending June SO, 1905, there entered the port of Rio de Janerio 
steamers and sailing vessels, 120 flying the flag of Austro-Hungary, 142 of 
Norway, 165 of Italy, 264 of Argentina, 349 of France, 657 of Germany, 1,786 
of Great Britain, and only 2 steamers and 7 sailing vessels from the UniteH 
States, 2 of which were in distress. Not one American steamship runs to a 
South American port beyond the Caribbean." 

The Secretary concludes : 

"This woeful deficiency in the means to carry on and enlarge our South 
American trade is but a part of the general decline and feebleness of the 
American merchant marine, which has reduced us from carrying over 90 per 
cent of our export trade in our own ships to the carriage of 9 per cent of that 
trade and dependence upon foreign shipowners for the carriage of 91 per cent." 

(Applause.) 

This humiliating condition should arouse and stimulate the American 
people to renewed and determined effort to reestablish a merchant marine, 
sufficient at least to carry American mails and American merchandise 
under the American flag to every port of trade on the globe. 

WAR DEPARTMENT AND NATIONAL MILITIA. 

The work of reorganizing and promoting the efficiency of the Army 
has gone steadily forward until we have a military force not only suf- 
ficient to maintain peace within our own borders, but capable of resisting 
any possible force that could be sent against us. 

Our coast defenses upon the mainland and in the dependencies are 
in process of construction and the time is near at hand when we can rest 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 35 

secure that our country will be proof against the capture of any seaport 
flying the national flag. (Applause.) 

Most important progress has been made in the development of the 
National Militia as an aid to the Regular Army of the United States. 
By well-directed legislation and the activity of the War Department,, 
for the first time in the history of the country adequate steps are being 
taken to bring about an approximation of armament, equipment, and dis- 
cipline of the Militia to those of the Regular Army. The importance of 
this development for national defense can not be over-estimated. 

The management of our outlying possessions under Republican ad- 
ministration has been attended with remarkable success. Under Amer- 
ican occupation and control the commerce of the island of Porto Rico, 
which in the most prosperous days of Spanish rule aggregated but 26 
million dollars, was, in 1907, 56 millions. (Applause.) 

When we took possession of the island there was but one school 
building owned by the Government. Now there are over 80, built and 
under construction, and 70,000 pupils are in the public schools. Peace and 
order prevail throughout the island, and a representative to the United 
States is accorded her people. 

THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 

In the Philippine Islands the people have been given a legislative 
body, the full power of conducting their own municipal and provincial 
governments, the administration of their own tariff system, the direction 
of the postal service, and indeed greater rights and powers than those 
possessed by any other people subject to our sovereignty. A sound and 
reliable currency system has been established, schools so enlarged that 
the number of primary schools now aggregate between 3,000 and 4,000, 
with a total enrollment in March, 1907, of 479,978. Post-offices have 
been installed throughout the archipelago, a free delivery service in the 
city of Manila, practically 10,000 miles of telegraph and cable lines are 
in operation, and several hundred miles of new railway are under con- 
struction or contract : while less than 10 per cent of the Government em- 
ployees and municipal officers are Americans, and of the police and con- 
stabulary force 98 per cent are Filipinos. (Applause.) 

The work of civilizing and uplifting the inhabitants of the Philippine 
Islands has gone forward with remarkable rapidity. The President of 
the United States in submitting to Congress the latest report of the 
Secretary of War. aptly summarizes the whole matter as follows : 

"No great civilized power has ever managed with such wisdom and dis- 
interestedness the affairs of a people committed by the accident of war to its 
hands. If we had followed the advice of the misguided persons who wished to 
turn the islands loose and let them suffer whatever fate might befall them, 
they would have already passed through a period of complete and bloody chaos, 
and would now undoubtedly be the possession of some other power which there 



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is every reason to believe would not have done as we have done — that is, 
would not have striven to teach them how to govern themselves or to have 
developed them, as we have developed them, primarily in their own interests. 
Save only our attitude toward Cuba, I question whether there is a brighter 
page in the annals of international dealing between the strong and the weak 
than the page which tells of our doings in the Philippines. 

"Peace prevails throughout the islands to-day in a greater degree than 
ever in the history of the islands, either under Spanish or American rule, 
and agriculture is nowhere now impeded by the fear on the part of the 
farmer of the incursion of predatory bands. Under the policy already stated, 
inaugurated by the instructions of President McKinley to Secretary Root, in 
reference to the establishment of a temporary government in the Philippines, 
a community consisting of 7,000,000 people, inhabiting 300 different islands, 
many of whom were in open rebellion against the Government of the United 
States for four years, with all the disturbances following from robber and 
predatory bands, which broke out from time to time, due to local causes, has 
been brought to a state of profound peace and tranquillity in which the people 
as a whole are loyally supporting the Government in the maintenance of 
order." 

The Republican party will continue its work of upbuilding this people 
until they are capable of self-government. But when the American flag 
comes down over that archipelago it will be lowered only by American 
hands (Applause), and no flag will take its place but the flag of Filipino 
independence. (Applause.) 

CUBAN REPUBLIC. 

The resignation of President Palma of the Republic of Cuba and 
the failure of the Cuban Congress to elect a successor left that island 
without a government at a time when great disorder prevailed, and the 
President deemed it his duty to establish a provisional government, restore 
order, administer law and justice, but coupled with the announcement 
that this action was preliminary to the re-establishment of orderly govern- 
ment in the island. (Applause.) Threatened insurrections were averted, 
peace and good order restored, and the development of production, trans- 
portation, and commerce resumed. Public order has been maintained, 
and at no time for a century has the island been so free from maurauding 
bands as under American provisional administration. Local and national 
elections are to be held and the government again turned over to the 
Cuban people, redeeming the nation's pledge. 

THE NAVY. 

Our Navy has been strengthened until today we hold a second place 
among the naval powers of the world, while our men behind the guns 
are second to none in mettle and marksmanship, and our fleet of battle- 
ships rides unchallenged around the globe, receiving the friendly saluta- 
tions of the nations, and conveying peace and good will to all the people. 
(Applause.) 




HON. GEORGE R. SHELDON, of New York, 
Treasurer of Republican National Committee. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 37 

The Department of Justice has prosecuted its work with fidelity and 
diligence, seeking to prevent violations of Federal law and to mete out 
meritorious punishment to the guilty. Its most important work during 
the past four years has been to defend the soundness of the positions 
taken by it relating to prosecutions under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law 
and the Interstate Commerce Law, by carrying proceedings thus inaug- 
urated through the various courts and to a final determination by the 
Supreme Court of the United States, that the constitutionality of these 
acts might be finally tested and established. (Applause.) 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. 

The great Department of Justice, with the Federal Judiciary, con- 
stitutes the conservative and restraining force which holds the govern- 
ment to its true course, and there should be no sympathy with that spirit 
which would divest the courts of their constitutional powers or impeach 
their integrity. They are the safeguard of the Republic. (Applause.) 

If constitutional government and civil liberty should ever be im- 
periled in this country, they will find their sure refuge and defense within 
the impregnable fortress of the supreme judiciary of the United States. 
(Applause.) 

The effort of the National Government to invoke that provision of 
the Federal Constitution which empowers Congress to regulate commerce 
with foreign nations and among the States presented problems of the 
greatest perplexity, the solution of which has been attended with no little 
difficulty. 

Without rehearsing the legislation enacted to correct the evils and 
the work of enforcing these statutes, it is gratifying to know that the 
abuses complained of are fast disappearing, and carrier and shipper alike 
are cooperating in the enforcement of the law. and what at one time 
threatened to be a protracted and acrimonious struggle is fast assuming 
a peaceful solution. 

The Interstate Commerce Commission, in its last annual report for 
1907, says: 

"It means much for the present and more for the 'future that the prin- 
ciples of this law have gained greatly in general understanding and acceptance. 
By railway managers almost without exception the amended law has been 
accepted in good faith, and they exhibit for the most part a sincere and 
earnest disposition to conform their methods to its requirements. To a grati- 
fying extent there has been readjustment of rates and correction of abuses by 
the carriers themselves. Methods and usages of one sort and another which 
operated to individual advantage have been voluntarily changed, and it is not 
too much to say that there is now a freedom from forbidden discriminations 
which is actual and general to a degree never before approached." 

The Commission further says : 

"It is in this general and marked improvement in transportation condi- 
tions that the Commission observed its special gratification. The amended law, 



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with its enforcible remedies, the wider recognition of its fundamental justice r 
the quickened sense of public obligation on the part of railroad managers, the 
clearer perception of shippers of all classes that any individual advantage is 
morally, as well as legally, indefensible, and the augmented influence of the 
Commission resulting from its increased authority have all combined to mater- 
ially diminish offensive practices of every sort and signally promote the pur- 
poses for which the law was enacted. This results in the voluntary adjust- 
ment by the parties, without resort to the Commission, of a vast number of 
compromises, which otherwise would ripen into complaint and litigation, 
while in numerous instances a settlement is effected by a friendly interven- 
tion by the Commission through correspondence or personal interviews be- 
tween the shipper and carrier directly concerned." 

The rulings of the Commission are generally and cheerfully accepted 
by the carriers. The traffic officials of the carriers have manifested, to 
a commendable degree, a disposition and willingness to fairly and care- 
fully consider the merits of complaints thus called to their attention by 
the Commission, and have voluntarily reduced their rates and applied 
corrective measures in numerous cases. 

In a communication from one of the Commissioners on the oth of 
the present month the statement is made that "interstate transportation 
was never so clean and free from unfair and unlawful practices as at 
this moment. It may be that here and there venturesome and reckless 
railroad officials still indulge in rebates or take other measures to give 
special privileges to a favored shipper. If so, they will be detected sooner 
or later and adequately punished, but among the great mass of railroad, 
officials there is an honest and firm effort to cooperate with the Commis- 
sion in the observance of the law. 

"The law has also commanded the respect and obedience of the shipper.. 
From all the letters which can be secured, I believe we are justified in saying 
that this great and vexing question is in process of ultimate and just settle- 
ment, and that under wise, patient action the problem will finally be solved.'' 

It is gratifying to be assured by so intelligent and respectable a body 
as the Interstate Commerce Commission that the great mass of railroad 
officials are honest, yielding ready obedience to the majesty of the law 
and the mandates of the courts. What is said of railroad officials can- 
be said with equal truthfulness of the great body of the American people. 
(Applause.) 

The indications are that "With malice toward none, and charity for 
all," proceeding within constitutional lines, the desired end will soon be 
attained to the benefit of the carrier and shipper alike. 

CUSTOMS REVISION. 

The Republican party stands for such a revision and readjustment of 
our customs laws as changed industrial conditions at home and abroad 
may have made necessary. As evidence of its good faith in this regard, 
the national House of Representatives, clothed under the Constitution- 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 39 

with exclusive jurisdiction to "originate all bills for raising revenue," 
authorized and directed its Committee on Ways and Means, "to sit during 
the recess of Congress and to gather such information, through gov- 
ernmental agents and otherwise, as it may see fit, looking toward the 
preparation of a bill for the revision of the tariff." (Applause.) 

Suplementing this action the Committee on Finance of the Senate 
are authorized, with the view of promptly securing the information nec- 
essary for an intelligent revision of the customs laws of the United 
States, to call to their assistance experts in the Executive Departments 
of the Government and to employ such other assistants as they shall re- 
quire ; and they are especially directed to report what further legislation 
is necessary to secure equitable treatment for the agricultural and other 
products of the United States in foreign countries, and they shall also, 
in the consideration of changes of rates, secure proof of the relative cost 
of production in this and in principal competing foreign countries of the 
various articles affected by the tariff upon which changes in rates of duty 
are desirable." 

These public declarations by Congress, upon the eve of the election, 
give the most solemn assurance possible that the work will be speedily 
undertaken and pressed to an early consummation. Both committees 
have already entered upon their labors. 

In this connection it can be safely promised that whatever revision 
or readjustment takes place under the control of the Republican party, it 
will give just and adequate protection to American industries and Amer- 
ican labor and defend the American market against unjust and unequal 
aggression from whatever quarter it may come. (Applause.) It will 
be a revision that will extinguish the fire in no American mill or put out 
the light of hope in no American home. 

BANKING AND CURRENCY. 

Our recent financial disturbance challenged the soundness of our 
monetary condition and brought to the fore the question of our banking 
and currency system, the consideration of which became and continues 
to be a subject of pressing and commanding importance. In the midst 
of unusual prosperity, with 6554 national banks under direct supervision 
and control of the National Government, with a paid-up capital of nearly 
900 millions, a surplus and undivided profits of 735 millions, and an out- 
standing" circulation of 552 millions, secured by United States bonds, 
every dollar of which was worth its face in gold; with an unprecedented 
holding of coin in the Treasury of the United States, yet sudden par- 
alysis seized the banks, national and state, and they were either reluc- 
tant or unable to respond to the ordinary and legitimate demands of 
trade. 

Consternation prevailed, confidence was shaken, and nothing but the 
prompt and heroic action of the Secretary of. the Treasury averted a 



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widespread and serious catastrophe. (Applause.) President Roosevelt 
well said, in commending the Secretary of the Treasury : 

"I congratulate you upon the admirable way in which you have handled 
the present crisis. I congratulate also those conservative and substantial business 
men who, in this crisis, have acted with such wisdom and public spirit. By 
their action they did invaluable service in checking the panic which, beginning 
as a matter of speculation, was threatening to destroy the confidence and credit 
necessary to the conduct of legitimate business. 

"No one who considers calmly can quesion that the underlying con- 
ditions which make up our financial and industrial well-being are essentially 
sound and honest. Dishonest dealing and speculative enterprise are merely 
the occasional incidents of our real prosperity. The action taken by you and 
by the business men in question has been of the utmost consequence and has 
secured opportunity for the calm consideration which must inevitably produce 
entire confidence in our business conditions." 

(Applause.) 

That such a disturbance should have occurred under such circum- 
stances furnishes the strongest evidence that there is something inher- 
ently defective in the system itself, which can only be reached by a 
thorough overhauling. But this system, hastily inaugurated by Secretary 
Chase during the exigencies of war, while confessedly defective in its 
inability to respond at all times to the varying and exacting demands of 
trade, yet, during the forty-five years of its existence, has served a wise 
and beneficent purpose. 

Under it the public credit was restored and advanced until our bonds 
float at a lower rate of interest than those of any other nation. Under 
it specie payments were resumed, the gold standard established and main- 
tained, and every paper dollar issued' made convertible into coin. Under 
this system questionable and worthless State bank issues Were driven out 
of circulation, and supplanted by a national currency of unchallenged 
character and stability. 

While other countries have added to their burden of debt, with an 
increased rate of interest thereon, this nation has paid off 1,484 millions 
of its obligations, and the present administration has lessened the volume 
of our indebtedness by $103,996,420 and has reduced the annual interest 
charge from $30,371,463 to $21,101,196. (Applause.) 

During the period of the existence of the national banking system, 
with annual average deposits of $1,529,339,311, the annual average loss to 
creditors of insolvent national banks has been only five one-hundredths 
of one per cent of that amount. 

That our banking system has its weaknesses is freely admitted. 
The defects, however, have been recognized from the beginning by prac- 
tically every Secretary of the Treasury, and while remedial changes 
have been made from time to time as these defects have been disclosed 
yet the one glaring fault, the want of elasticity, has continued and re- 
mains. As early as 1872, 35 years ago, Hon. George S. Boutwell, the 




HON. NATHAN B. SCOTT, of West Virginia, 
Member of Sub-Committee on Arrangements. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 41 

then Secretary of the Treasury, directed attention to this defect as fol- 
lows : 

"The circulation of each bank is fixed arbitrarily by a rule of law. The 
aggregate circulation is, therefore, a fixed sum, and consequently there 
is practicajly no reserve to meet the increased demand for money due occasion- 
ally to extraordinary events at home or abroad, and arising periodically with 
the incoming of the harvest. * * * A degree of flexibility in the volume 
of currency is essential for two reasons: First, the business of the Depart- 
ment can not be transacted properly if a limit is fixed, and the power to raise 
the circulation above or reduce it below that limit is denied. A rule of this 
nature would compel the Secretary to accumulate a large currency balance 
and to hold it, as otherwise the credit of the Government in meeting the ordi- 
nary daily claims upon it would be at the mercy of every serious business and 
political revulsion in the United States. 

"Secondly, there is a necessity every autumn for moving the crops 
without delay from the South and West to the seaboard that they may be in 
hand for export and consumption as wanted. In the summer months funds 
accumulate at the centers, but the renewal of business in August and Sep- 
tember gives employment for large sums and leaves little or nothing for for- 
warding the crops in October and November. * * * The problem is to find 
a way of increasing the currency for moving the crops and diminishing it at 
once when that work is done." 

Secretary Windom, in 1890, reiterated the warning — 

"In my judgment the gravest defect in our present financial system is its 
lack of elasticity. * * * The demand for money in this country is so irregu- 
lar that an amount of circulation which will be ample during ten months of the 
year will frequently prove so deficient during the other two months as to 
cause stringency and commercial disaster. Such stringency may occur with- 
out any speculative manipulations of money, though, unfortunately, it is often 
intensified by such manipulations. 

"The crops of the country have reached proportions so immense that 
their movement to market, in August and September, annually causes a dan- 
gerous absorption of money. The lack of a sufficient supply to meet the in- 
creased demand during those months may entail heavy losses upon the agricultural 
as well as other business interests. Though financial stringency may occur 
at any time and from many causes, yet nearly all of the great commercial 
crises in our history have occurred during the months named, and unless some 
provision be made to meet such contingencies in the future, like disasters may 
be confidently expected." 

The recent panic called the attention of Congress anew to the neces- 
sity for further legislation, and a law has been enacted providing for an 
emergency currency of $500,000,000 to be issued under certain conditions 
and limitations, an authorization, it is believed, which will prevent the 
recurrence of any such disaster as befell the country last fall. The Sec- 
retary of the Treasury has promptly taken the necessary steps to give 
effect to this legislation, and banking associations are already forming 
to avail themselves of its benefits. It is doubtful if the provisions of 
this act will ever be invoked, as the ability to supply $500,000,000 addi- 
tional currency whenever needed will of itself have a tendency to make 
its issuance unnecessary. (Applause.) 



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In the meantime, however, the Republican party is not indifferent 
to the necessity of a further and comprehensive revision of our mone- 
tary and banking system, and to that end the Congress just closed author- 
ized the creation of a monetary commission, composed of 18 members 
taken from the two Houses of Congress, clothed with power to inquire 
into and report to Congress at the earliest date practicable what changes 
are necessary or desirable in the monetary system of the United States 
or in the laws relating to banking and currency, and for this purpose 
they are authorized to sit during the sessions or recess of Congress, at 
such times and places as they may deem desirable, to send for persons 
and papers, summon and compel the attendance of witnesses, experts, 
and other assistants as shall be necessary to carry out the purpose for 
which said commission was created, and to make such investigations 
and examinations, in this or other countries, of the subjects "committed 
to their charge as they shall deem necessary. This is the broadest kind 
of authorization. 

This commission has already organized and entered upon its labors 
and will diligently prosecute its work with the hope and expectation of 
evolving a monetary system which will meet every legitimate business 
need of the country, promote the prosperity of all of our people, and com- 
mand the confidence of the business world. 

WE ARE A WORLD POWER. 

But, in the broader field of the world's drama, where the nations 
1 are actors, our country has taken a conspicuous and commanding part. 
Having become a world power, our influence is world-wide and always 
exerted in the interest of peace and the betterment of mankind. When 
the dispute between Germany and France regarding the right of control 
in Morocco threatened to involve all Europe in war, the active influence 
of the United States was a potent factor in bringing about a peaceable 
solution. 

PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE. 

Tix^ participation of the United States in the Pan-American Con- 
ference at Rio in 1906, and the visit of Secretary Root to that Confer- 
ence and to all the principal maritime countries of South America, where 
he was received with universal acclaim, put an end to the suspicion and 
distrust with which the growing power of the United States was regarded 
by the Latin-American races, and opened a new era of friendship and 
sympathy between all the American Republics. (Applause.) This has 
been augmented by the Secretary's visit to Mexico as the guest of the 
Mexican Republic in October, 1907, and by the visit of our fleet to the 
chief maritime Republics of South America and by the enlarged and 
greater development of the work of the International Union of American 
Republics for the dissemination of knowledge and the cultivation of trade 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 43 

and friendly relations between the different American countries, for 
which all the Republics are now uniting in the erection of a splendid 
building in the city of Washington dedicated to the peace and prosperity 
■of all the Americas. (Applause.) 

The United States and Mexico have co-operated in bringing about 
conditions which will put an end to all discord and restore peace and 
prosperity in Central America. (Applause.) At the instance of the 
United States and Mexico a peace conference of representatives of all 
the five Central American countries was held in Washington in Novem- 
ber and December, 1907, and at this conference, which was attended by 
representatives of the United States and Mexico, a series of treaties was 
made of the greatest practical importance, among them being a treaty 
which provides for a permanent international court for the trial and de- 
cision of all questions whatever arising between Central American coun- 
tries. This court has just been inaugurated in Costa Rica. 

PANAMA CANAL. 

The building of the Panama Canal, the most colossal undertaking 
of the century, the successful completion of which is now assured, makes 
it more important to the United States than ever before that there shall 
be no hostile control of the route between our great Atlantic and Pacific 
ports and the Isthmus. For that reason it is of especial importance that 
the people inhabiting the islands and shores of the Caribbean shall main- 
tain independent, peaceful, and prosperous governments. The policy of 
the United States to aid them in maintaining such governments has been 
prosecuted with special success during the last four years. (Applause.) 

SAN DOMINGO. 

The frightful disorder and bloodshed which had marked the annals 
of San Domingo for many years have been ended by an agreement with 
the United States taking the form of a treaty entered into with 
the approval of the Senate, under which, by the simple 'appointment of 
an American agent to collect Dominican customs revenues, and apply the 
surplus toward the payment of the Dominican debts, without landing a 
soldier or firing a gun, complete peace has been maintained for four 
years past, the commerce and industry of the island have revived, the 
revenues have doubled, and the nominal indebtedness of about $35,000,000, 
which hung like a pall over the people, who had given up all attempts to 
pay either principal or interest, has been adjusted and settled at approxi- 
mately $17,000,000, for which interest and sinking-fund payments are 
completely assured by the revenues resulting from the new prosperity. 
(Applause.) 

As a result of this policy, severely criticised at the time of its inau- 
guration, but now generally commended, revolutions on the island have 



44 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

practically ceased, customs laws have been impartially enforced, result- 
ing in an increase of customs collected from $1,852,209 in 1904 to $3,428,- 
012 for the year ended March 31, 1908. Out of $9,103,939 collected in the 
last three years $4,000,000 over and above the expenses of the govern- 
ment have been saved for the benefit of the creditors. 

PEACE CONFERENCE AT THE HAGUE. 

With the active participation of the delegates of the United States 
the Second International Peace Conference at The Hague, in the summer 
of 1907, entered into agreements which, taken together, have been de- 
clared by high authority to constitute one of the greatest advances ever 
made toward the reasonable and peaceable regulation of international con- 
duct. Twelve treaties agreed upon at that Conference, all designed for 
reducing the probability or mitigating the horrors of war, have been 
ratified by the Senate. (Applause.) 

Important among these treaties was the agreement proposed and 
urged upon the Conference by the United States under which all the 
civilized powers agree not to use force for the collection of contract debts 
claimed by their citizens against other countries, so long as the alleged 
debtor seeks the protection of arbitration as to the justice and the amount 
of the debt or time and mode in which it ought to be paid. This agree- 
ment is a long step toward putting an end to that speculation on the 
necessities of weak and disordered countries, which relies upon the gun- 
boats of the greater powers for the enforcement of exorbitant and fraudu- 
lent claims. (Applause.) 

Following the action of The Hague Convention in providing greater 
facilities for the use of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The 
Hague, the United States has put itself upon the basis of the peaceful 
settlement of international disputes by concluding general treaties of 
arbitration with England, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Den- 
mark, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Italy, Mexico, and Japan, while 
many other similar treaties are in course of negotiation. (Applause.) 

JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES. 

The questions between Japan and the United States, which caused 
so much public excitement in 1907, have been disposed of to the satisfac- 
tion of the people of both countries, and a general treaty of arbitration 
has been concluded between them. 

CHINESE EXCLUSION LAW. 

The unfriendly feelings among the people of China which grew out 
of the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion law and led to the boycott of 
American goods have disappeared, and American trade in China has been 




HON. CHARLES F. BROOKER, of Connecticut, 
Member of the Sub-Committee on Arrangements. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 45 

restored to its natural course. The United States has secured the assent 
of all the nations having possessions in the Orient to a united effort with 
China to put an end to the curse of opium in the Orient, and an interna- 
tional conference, under the leadership of the United States, has been 
agreed upon to meet at Shanghai on the 1st of next January for the pur- 
pose of devising and formulating an international agreement to prevent 
its production, sale, and use. 

THREATENED TARIFF WARS BETWEEN UNITED STATES 
AND GERMANY. 

Threatened tariff wars between the United States and Germany and 
France, have been averted by commercial agreements between the United 
States and each of those countries. 

TREATY OF PORTSMOUTH 

But the crowning act in this drama was that in which the President 
himself took the initiative, halted the contending armies of Russia and 
Japan, and by the treaty at Portsmouth brought about an honorable, and, 
it is to be hoped, an enduring peace between these great powers. It was 
a matchless stroke of diplomacy, never excelled in the history of nations. 
(Applause.) 

PRESIDENTIAL THIRD TERM. 

Yet nothing has added so much to his just fame as his persistent 
and irrevocable refusal to break the unwritten law of the Republic by 
accepting a nomination for a third term. By this act of self-abnegation 
he places his name and fame in the secure keeping of history by the 
side of that of the immortal Washington. (Applause.) 

With this splendid record of the last four years in the manage- 
ment of our domestic and foreign affairs, backed by the history of nearly 
half a century of Republican policies, the public mind must rest in the 
conviction that the continued ascendency of the Republican party will 
best promote the interests of the people and advance the glory and stabil- 
ity of the Republic. 

The work of this Convention will soon be concluded. The platform 
must voice the sober thought of the people, and the candidates nomi- 
nated must stand upon it firm and erect. They must have the patriotism 
and sagacity of a Lincoln, the tenacity of a Grant, the wisdom and mod- 
eration of a McKinley, and the courage of a Roosevelt. With such a 
platform and such candidates the issue can not be in doubt. The Repub- 
lican party confidently submits its record to the approving judgment of 
the American people and, upon its renewed declaration of faith, invokes 
continuance of public confidence and support. (Applause.) 



46 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



TEMPORARY OFFICERS. 

The Temporary Chairman. — By direction of the Republican Na- 
tional Committee the Chair submits to the Convention a list of temporary 
officers proposed by the Committee, which will be read. 

Mr. Lafayette B. Gleason, of New York, read as follows: 

General Secretary John R. Malloy, Columbus, Ohio. 

Chief Assistant Secretary Lafayette B. Gleason, Delhi, N. Y. 

Sergeant -a t-Arms William F. Stone, Baltimore, Md. 

Parliamentarian Asher C. Hinds, Portland, Maine. 

Official Reporter Milton W. Blumenberg, Washington, D. C. 

Chief of Doorkeepers Stephen R. Mason, Baltimore, Md. 

Chaplains Bishop P. J. Muldoon, Chicago, 111. 

Rev. William O. Waters, Chicago, 111. 

Rev. Tobias Schanfarber, Chicago, 111. 

Rev. John Wesley Hill, New York, N. Y. 
Assistant Secretaries Charles Brooks Smith, Parkersburg, W. Va. 

Ernest Walker Smith, Hartford, Conn. 

Philip M. Hoefele, St. Louis, Mo. 

M. J. Tobin, Vinton, Iowa. 

Charles M. Harger, Abilene, Kansas. 

Allen Hollis, Concord, New Hampshire. 
Reading Clerks Thomas W. Williamson, Edwardsville, 111. 

Albert Berg, Beaudette, Minnesota. 

George A. Wilson, Des Moines, Iowa. 

W. J. Seitz, West Liberty, Kentucky. 
Tally Clerks Roy M. Watkins, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Clyde W. Miller, Osage City, Kansas. 

Frank R. Bentley, Baraboo, Wisconsin. 

W. A. Steele, Van Buren, Arkansas. 

Messenger to the Chairman Empsirdell Stone, Indianapolis, Ind. 

Messenger to the Secretary John H. Jackson, Cincinnati. Ohio. 

Mr. Charles H. Clark, of Connecticut. — I move that the recom- 
mendations of the Republican National Committee in respect to the selec- 
tion of the general secretary, assistant secretaries, official reporter, read- 
ing clerks, and other officers as submitted, be approved by the Convention. 

The motion was agreed to. 

RULES. 

Mr. Sereno E. Payne, of New York, submitted the following reso- 
lution, which was read and agreed to : 

Resolved That until a permanent organization is effected, this convention be 
governed by the rules of the last Republican National Convention. 

COMMITTEES. 

Mr. Chester I. Long, of Kansas, submitted the following resolu- 
tion, which was read and agreed to : 




COLONEL WILLIAM F. STONE, of Maryland, 
Sergeant-at-Arms of the Convention and of the National Committee. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 47 

Resolved That the roll of States and Territories be now called, and that the 
chairman of each delegation announce the names of the persons selected to serve on 
the several committees, as follows: Credentials, Permanent Organization, Rules and 
Order of Business, Resolutions; and further, that the chairman of each delegation 
send to the Secretary's desk in writing the names of the persons selected from his 
delegation to serve on the aforesaid committees. 

The Temporary Chairman. — The Secretary will call the roll of 
States, etc., as provided for in the resolution. 

The Secretary proceeded to call the roll. 

Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts. — I move that the fur- 
ther call of the roll be dispensed with and that the names of members 
of the committees be handed in to the Secretary. 

The Temporary Chairman. — The Chair suggests to the gentleman 
from Massachusetts that he modify his motion by excepting the State 
of Louisiana, as the Chair is informed that two lists of committee mem- 
bers will be presented to the Convention from that State. 

Mr. Lodge. — Very well. I modify the motion so as to except 
Louisiana. 

The Temporary Chairman. — The question is on agreeing to the 
motion of the gentleman from Massachusetts as modified. 

The motion as modified was agreed to. 

The Temporary Chairman. — The Chair is advised that the matter 
in controversy in respect to the Louisiana delegation has been adjusted. 
The Chair understands that the adjustment of the matter results in there 
being no member representing that State on certain of the committees. 

The committees as constituted are as follows : 



48 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS. 

State or Territory. Name of Member. 

Alabama i ''W. H. ALEXANDER. 

Arkansas F. VV. TUCKER. 

California H. H. MAYBERRY. 

Colorado HUBERT WORK 

Connecticut , O. R. TYLER. 

Delaware HIRAM R. BURTON. 

Florida M. B. MACFARLANE. 

Georgia ALEXANDER AKERMAN. 

Idaho C. C. CAVANNAH. 

Illinois FRANK L. SMITH. 

Indiana CHARLES A. BOOKWALTER. 

Iowa DAVID BRANT. 

Kansas W. S. FITZPATRICK. 

Kentucky WM. D. COCHRAN. \ 

Louisiana A. B. KENNEDY. 

Maine BYRON BOYD. 

Maryland W. S. BOOZE. 

Massachusetts SAMUEL J. ELDER. 

Michigan MICHAEL BROWN. 

Minnesota FRANK E. PUTNAM. 

Mississippi L. B. MOSELEY. 

Missouri JOHN E. GILLILAND 

Montana J. G. BAIR. 

Nebraska SAMUEL RINAKER. 

Nevada WILLIAM EASTON. 

New Hampshire JACOB H. GALLINGER. 

New Jersey SAMUEL K. ROBBINS. 

New York J. SLOAT FAS SETT. 

North Carolina CHARLES A. COWLES. 

North Dakota R. H. TOHNSON. 

Ohio HARRY M. DAUGHERTY. 

Oklahoma WALTER FALWELL. 

Oregon C. W. FULTON. 

Pennsylvania JAMES SCARLET. 

Rhode Island EDWARD E. ARNOLD. 

South Carolina A. D. WEBSTER. 

South Dakota C. H. DILLON. 

Tennessee LEE BROCK. 

Texas J. A. SMITH. 

Utah REED SMOOT. 

Vermont FRANK L. GREENE. 

Virginia J. W. M'GAVOCK. 

Washington FRANK T. POST. 

West Virginia CHARLES W. DILLON. 

Wisconsin WALTER L. HOUSER. 

Wyoming B. B. BROOKS. 

Alaska L. P. SHACKLEFORD. 

Arizona L. W. POWELL. 

District of Columbia RICHARD R. HORNER. 

Hawaii A. G. M. ROBERTSON. 

New Mexico C. A. SPIESS. 

Philippine Islands A. S. CROSSFIELD. 

Porto Rico F. P. QUINONES. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 49 

COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT ORGANIZATION. 

State or Territory. Name of Member. 

Alabama H. G. ASHLEY. 

Arkansas JOHN E. BUSH. 

California JOHN H. NORTON. 

Colorado ROBERT G. BRECKENRIDGE. 

Connecticut CHARLES F. BROOKER. 

Delaware WALTER O. HOFFECKER. 

Florida DANIEL T. GEROW. 

Georgia F. J. WIMBERLEY. 

Idaho WARREN TRUITT. 

Illinois DAVID E. SHANAHAN. 

Indiana JAMES W. EMISON. 

Iowa DUNCAN RULE. 

Kansas O. J. PETERSON. 

Kentucky . J. TOM DOORES. 

Louisiana (Not reported). 

Maine RICHARD WEBB. 

Maryland GEORGE. W. PADGETT. 

Massachusetts W. M. BUTLER. 

Michigan GRANT FELLOWS. 

Minnesota S. F. ALDERMAN. 

Mississippi W. E. MOLLISON. 

Missouri JOHN H. BOTHWELL. 

Montana C. M. BAIR. 

Nebraska O. O. SNYDER. 

Nevada HUGH BROWN. 

New Hampshire EDWIN F. JONES. 

New Jersey JOSEPH A. DEAR. 

New York FRED GREINER. 

North Carolina HARVEY S. SKINNER. 

North Dakota C. H. STEBBINS. 

Ohio GEORGE B. COX. 

Oklahoma GEO. H. DODSON. 

Oregon C. G. HUNTLEY. 

Pennsylvania W. W. GRIEST. 

Rhode Island PITILTPPE BOUCHER. 

South Carolina J. A. BAXTER. 

South Dakota ' E. L. SEXX. 

Tennessee GEO. M'HENDERSON. 

Texas CHAS. C. LITTLETON. 

Utah JOSEPH HOWELL. 

Vermont GILBERT M. CAMPBELL. 

Virginia JOSEPH L. CRUPPER. 

Washington EMERSON HAMMER. 

West Virginia E. M. GRANT. 

Wisconsin WTLLIAM J. KIECKHEFER. 

Wyoming W. G. BIRKHAEUSER. 

Alaska L. P. SHACKLEFORD. 

Arizona R. E. SLOAN. 

District of Columbia R. R. HORNER. 

Hawaii J. M. DAWSON. 

New Mexico CHAS. A. SPIESS. 

Philippine Islands THOS. L. HARTIGAN. 

Porto Rico F. P. OUINONES. 



50 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ORDER OF. BUSINESS. 

State or Territory. Name of Member. 

Alabama... P. M. LONG. 

Arkansas H. H. MYERS. 

California HENRY T. OXNARD. 

Colorado CLYDE C. DAWSON. 

Connecticut CHARLES M. JARVIS. 

Delaware JOHN G. TOWNSEND. 

Florida W. H. LUCAS. 

Georgia J. M. BARNES. 

Idaho JOHN W. HART. 

Illinois PERRY ELLIS. 

Indiana WILLIAM A. GUTHRIE. 

Iowa ERNEST R. MOORE. 

Kansas BENJ. M'LEAN. 

Kentucky EDWARD W. LANE. 

Louisiana (Not Reported) . 

Maine FRED A. CHANDLER. 

Maryland WM. A. ROULETTE. 

Massachusetts GEORGE H. DOTY. 

Michigan NELSON SHARPE. 

Minnesota GEORGE H. SULLIVAN. 

Mississippi WESLEY CRAYTON. 

Missouri JOHN H. BOTHWELL. 

iviontana T. A. MARLOW. 

Nebraska A. C. SMITH. 

Nevada C. A. AHERN. 

New Hampshire EDWIN G. EASTMAN. 

New Jersey WILLIAM BARBER. 

New York JAMES W. WADSWORTH, JR. 

North Carolina WILLIS G. BRIGGS. 

North Dakota VICTOR ROSE. 

Ohio NOAH H. SWAYNE. 

Oklahoma A. E. PERRY. 

Oregon A. N. GILBERT. 

Pennsylvania JAMES FRANCIS BURKE. 

Rhode Island JOHN FLETCHER. 

South Carolina E. H. DEAS. 

South Dakota A. J. LOCKHART. 

Tennessee R. A. HAGGARD. 

Texas SAMUEL DAVIDSON. 

Utah C. E. WILSON. 

Vermont GILBERT F. DAVIS. 

Virginia R. H. ANGELL. 

Washington A. L. MILLER. 

West Virginia GEO. A. LAUGHLIN. 

Wisconsin HENRY LOCKNEY. 

Wyoming FRANCIS E. WARREN. 

Alaska GEORGE A. SHEA. 

Arizona L. W. POWELL. 

District of Columbia HENRY H. FLATHER. 

Hawaii A. G. M. ROBERTSON. 

New Mexico H. O. BURSUM. 

Philippine Islands A. S. CROSSFIELD. 

Porto Rico R. H. TODD. 




HON. ERNEST E. HART, of Iowa, 
Member of the Sub-Committee on Arrangements. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 51 

COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. 

State or Territory. Name of Member. 

Alabama JAMES H. MONTGOMERY. 

Arkansas H. L. REMMEL. 

California HENRY A. NELSON. 

Colorado WILLIAM A. DRAKE. 

Connecticut I. M. ULLMAN. 

Delaware HENRY A. du PONT. 

Florida HENRY S. CHUBB. 

Georgia H. L. JOHNSON. 

Idaho B. F. O'NEAL. 

Illinois ALBERT J. HOPKINS. 

Indiana J. A. HEMENWAY. 

Iowa JOHN F. LACY. 

Kansas CHESTER I. LONG. 

Kentucky WM. MARSHALL BULLITT. 

Louisiana (Not reported). 

Maine CHARLES J. DUNN. 

Maryland C. ROSS MACE. 

Massachusetts W. MURRAY CRANE. 

Michigan JOSEPH W. FORDNEY. 

Minnesota FRANK B. KELLOGG. 

Mississippi J. B. YELLOWLEY. 

Missouri WILLIAM WARNER. 

Montana V J. BENNETT. 

Nebraska ALLEN W. FIELD. 

Nevada GEO. S. NIXON. 

New Hampshire CHESTER B. JORDAN. 

New Jersey THOMAS N. M'CARTER. 

New York SERENO E. PAYNE. 

North Carolina SPENCER B. ADAMS. 

North Dakota JUDSON A. LAMOURE. 

Ohio WADE H. ELLIS. 

Oklahoma JAMES A. HARRIS. 

Oregon C. A. SLHLBREDE. 

Pennsylvania JOHN DALZELL. 

Rhode Island EZRA DIXON. 

South Carolina JOHN G. CAPERS. 

South Dakota COE I. CRAWFORD. 

Tennessee H. CLAY EVANS. 

Texas CHAS. W. OGDEN. 

Utah GEO. SUTHERLAND. 

Vermont ALLAN M. FLETCHER. 

Virginia D. LAWRENCE GRONER. 

Washington R. A. BALLINGER. 

West Virginia ISAAC T. MANN. 

Wisconsin HENRY ALLEN COOPER. 

Wyoming C. D. CLARK. 

Alaska GEO. A. SHEA. 

Arizona R. E. SLOAN. 

District of Columbia HENRY H. FLATHER. 

Hawaii J. M. DAWSON. 

New Mexico H. O. BURSOM. 

Philippine Islands THOS. L. HARTIGAN. 

Porto Rico R. H. TODD. 



52 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

BASIS OF REPRESENTATION IN CONVENTION. 

Mr. James Francis Burke, of Pennsylvania. — I offer the resolution 
I send to the desk, and ask that it be read and referred to the Committee 
on Rules without discussion. 

The Temporary Chairman. — The gentleman from Pennsylvania 
submits a resolution, which will be read. 

The General Secretary read the resolution as follows : 

Resolved, That the basis of representation in the Republican National Conven- 
tion hereafter shall be as follows: Each State shall be entitled to four delegates at 
large, and one additional delegate for each ten thousand votes or majority fraction 
thereof, cast at the last preceding presidential election for republican electors; and two 
delegates from each Territory, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, 
and the Philippines; and that methods necessary for the enforcement of this rule shall 
be provided by the Republican National Committee chosen by the delegates to this 
convention. * 

Mr. J. Warren Keifer, of Ohio. — I move that the resolution be 
referred to the Committee on Rules. 

The Temporary Chairman. — That was the request of the mover of 
the resolution. By unanimous consent it is so ordered. 

Mr. Henry A. du Pont, of Delaware. — I move that the Convention 
adjourn until 12 o'clock tomorrow. 

The motion was agreed to; and (at 2 o'clock and 5 minutes p. m.) 
the convention adjourned until tomorrow, Wednesday, June 17, 1908, at 
12 o'clock meridian. 



THE SECOND DAY 

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS — THE ROLL 
OF THE CONVENTION — PERMANENT OFFICERS — AD- 
DRESS OF THE PERMANENT CHAIRMAN — NATIONAL 
COMMITTEE — HONORARY VICE PRESIDENTS OF THE 
CONVENTION — MAJORITY AND MINORITY REPORTS 
OF THE COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ORDER OF BUSI- 
NESS—DEBATE AND VOTE THEREON. 

CONVENTION HALL 

The Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois, June 17, 1908. 

The convention was called to order at 12 :20 o'clock p. m. by the 
Temporary Chairman, who said : 

The proceedings this day will be begun by prayer by the Rev. William 
Otis Waters, of Chicago, Illinois. 

PRAYER OF REV. WILLIAM OTIS WATERS. 

Rev. William Otis Waters, of Chicago, offered the following 
prayer : 

O Lord, our heavenly Father, the high and mighty Ruler of the uni- 
verse, who dost from Thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth ; 
Most heartily we beseech Thee, with Thy favour to behold and bless 
Thy servant The President of the United States, and all others in author- 
ity; and so replenish them with the grace of Thy Holy Spirit, that they 
may always incline to Thy will, and walk in Thy way. Endow them 
plenteously with heavenly gifts ; grant them in health and prosperity long 
to live; and finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity. 

And O most gracious God, we humbly beseech Thee as for the peo- 
ple of these United States in general, so especially for this Republican 
National Convention here assembled ; That Thou wouldest be pleased 
to direct and prosper all their consultations, to the advancement of Thy 
glory, the safety, honor and welfare of Thy people. Take away all hatred 
and prejudice, and whatsoever else may hinder us from perfect union 
and concord; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their en- 
deavors, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, 
truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all 
generations. These and all other necessaries for the members of this 

(53) 



-54 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

convention and for the nation at large we humbly beg in the name of 
Jesus Christ our most blessed Lord and Saviour, who has taught us when 
we pray to say — 

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy king- 
dom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this 
day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those 
who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver 
us from evil ; for Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, 
for ever and ever. Amen. 

COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS. 

Mr. Harry M. Daugherty, of Ohio. — ■ Mr. Chairman, on behalf of 
the Committee on Credentials I am instructed to report to the Convention 
that your committee proceeded immediately yesterday upon the adjourn- 
ment of the Convention to the hearing of the various contests, and re- 
mained in continuous session until 5 :30 o'clock this morning. I beg 
leave to report on behalf of the Committee on Credentials that the com- 
mittee has fully heard all the contests, and will be able to make its re- 
port to the Convention m less than one hour. 

HENRY BAKER AND JAMES D. CONNOR. 

The Temporary Chairman. — Gentlemen of the Convention, we are 
honored today by the presence of Henry Baker, of Minnesota, and Judge 
James D. Connor of Indiana, who were delegates to the great Republican 
Convention of 1856. I beg to present them to the convention. (Applause.) 

A. G. PROCTOR, OF MICHIGAN. 

Mr. Robert L. Warren, of Michigan. — I desire to offer the resolu- 
tion I send to the desk. 

The resolution was read and agreed to as follows : 

Resolved, That in recognition of the fact that the veterans who participated in 
the early struggles of the Republican Party are passing with the years, the representa- 
tives of the party honor themselves in honoring them, and that therefore this Con- 
vention invites to the platform Honorable A. G. Proctor, of St. Joseph, Michigan, who 
participated as a delegate in the memorable convention in this city which forty- 
eight years ago named as the candidate of our party for President of the United 
States that peerless statesman of all time, Abraham Lincoln. 

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS. 

The Temporary Chairman. — The Chair is advised that the Com- 
mittee on Credentials is ready to report and recognizes Senator Fulton, 
of Oregon, chairman of the committee. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 55 

Mr. C. W. Fulton, of Oregon, (chairman of the Committee on Cre- 
dentials) read the report of the committee as follows : 

"CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 17, 1908. 
"To the 

"Honorable J. C. BURROWS, Temporary Chairman, 
"Republican National Convention, 
"Chicago, Illinois. 
"Mr. Chairman: 

"Your Committee on Credentials respectfully submits the following report: 
"We met immediately after the adjournment of the Convention yesterday, or- 
ganized and remained in continuous session for about fifteen hours, fully hearing and 
carefully considering each contest presented. As a result your committee is of the 
opinion that the delegates placed upon the temporary roll by the National Committee, 
are, in each instance, the ones entitled to seats in this Convention. There should be 
added thereto, however, the following named delegates and alternates from the Ter- 
ritory of New Mexico: 

Delegates. Alternates. 

Holm O. Bursum, Socorro; W. H. Newcomb, Silver City; 

Charles A. Spies, Las Vegas; Faustin Gallegos, Clayton. 

"We therefore recommend that the temporary roll of delegates as made up by 
the National Committee, with the addition of the delegates, and alternates from New 
Mexico aforesaid, be made the permanent roll of this Convention. 

"The list of the delegates and alternates which the committee finds entitled to a 
seat as aforesaid is hereunto attached. 

Respectfully submitted, 

"C. W. FULTON, 

"Chairman. 
"J. SLOAT FAS SETT, 

Secretary." 

The roll of delegates and alternates as reported by the Committee 
on Credentials is as follows : 



56 



OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



ROLL OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 

ALABAMA. 



AT LARGE. 



Delegates. 

Joseph O. Thompson Birmingham 

Wm. R. Fairley Pratt City 

Frank H. Lathrop Birmingham 

Nathan H. Alexander Montgomery 



Alternates. 

Byron Trammell Dothan 

Henry F. Irwin Montgomery 

Jerry Murphy Huntsville 

U. G. Mason Birmingham 



DISTRICTS. 



1— Prelate D. Barker Mobile 

James T. Peterson Mobile 

2 — J. P. Dimmick Montgomery 

A. S. Watkins...- Montgomery 

3-D. B. Smith ...Opelika 

S. M. Murphy Eufala 

4 — J. I. Abercrombie Columbiana 

Geo. W. Parsons Talladega 

5 — H. Gibson Levelroad 

W. V. Chambliss. Tuskegee 

6— Will B. Ford Hamilton 

Pope M. Long Cordova 

7— J. J. Curtis Haleyville 

H. G. Astiley Gadsden 

S — John A. Steele ..Birmingham 

G. O. Chenault Moulton 

9 — Joseph H. Montgomery. . .Birmingham 

Nenian L. Steele Birmingham 



Walter P. Williamson Mobile 

Clarence W. Allen Mobile 

W. C. Starke Troy 

George E. Neustell Montgomery 

J. W. Mathews... Abbeville 

Joe W. Richards Eufala 

L. T. Smith Anniston 

J. A. Bingham Talladega 

L. D. Hicks Antangaville 

G. W. Jeter Milstead 

W. H. Chapman Livingston 

Ignatius Green Tuscaloosa 

M. W. Watts Cedar Bluff 

R. R. McClusky Boaz 

W. F. Struve Huntsville 

C. W. Negley Florence 

N. L. Wilson Blocton 

Joseph Brice Sneeds 



ARKANSAS. 



AT LARGE 

Delegates. 

Powell Clayton Eureka Springs 

H. L. Remmel '. Newport 

F. W. Tucker Little Rock 

John E. Bush Little Rock 



Alternates. 

John Bruce Cox Little Rock 

Louis H. Moore Ozark 

C. M. Wade Hot Springs 

E. C. Morris Helena 



DISTRICTS. 



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Taylor Osceola 

Kennedy Cotton Plant 

G. Henry Newport 

Myers Little Rock 

I vie Huntsville 

M. Greene Harrison 

Smith Van Buren 

L. Mallory De Queen 

Skipper Morrilton 

Jones Little Rock 

Jones Hot Springs 

Dawson Fairfield 

Russell Camden 

Harden Ten me 



H. H. Houghton Jonesboro 

E. R. Crum Helena 

J. M. McClintock De Vails Bluff 

Arthur Deland Walnut Ridge 

E. C. Prichard Fayetteville 

C. F. Ellis Eureka Springs 

Thomas Boles Ft. Smith 

G. W. Petty Mena 

J. N. Sarber Clarkville 

P. A. Knowles Little Rock 

A. C. Curtis Lonoke 

J. T. Chambliss Fordyce 

Jeff Russell ". Hope 

M. M. Murray Lewisville 




TTOX. Wf T.LI AM WARNER, of Missouri, 
Chairman of tlic Committee to Notify the Nominee for President. 



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CALIFORNIA. 



AT LARGE. 

Delegates. 

Geo. A Knight San Francisco 

Henry A. Melvin...; Oakland 

M. H. De Young Sun Francisco 

Jacob H. Neff San Francisco 



Alternates. 

Thomas W. Kelly Santa Cruz 

C. E. A. Chase Riverside 

Charles E. Clinch Grass Valley 

Charles S. Wheeler San Francisco 



DISTRICTS. 



1— J. P. Wentz Crescent City 

Beach Thompson Angels Camp 

2 — E. L. Hawk Sacramento 

S. M. Augustine San Rafael 

3— Geo. W. Reed Oakland 

G. G. Halliday Vallejo 

4 — Chas. L. Field San Francisco 

Philip Bancroft San Francisco 

5 — Geo. C. Ross San Mateo 

John D. Daly San Francisco 

6— J. R. Hebbron Salinas 

Return Roberts Madera 

7 — John H. Norton Los Angeles 

H. H. Mayberry Alhambra 

8- J. L. Paul Upland 

Henry T. Oxnard Oxnard 



Abner Weed Dunsmuir 

Harold T. Power Auburn 

W. O. Russell Davisville 

Bismarck Brucke St. Helena 

Geo. D. Metcalf Berkeley 

Geo. H. Ward ...Port Costa 

Frank W. Marvin San Francisco 

Frederick Baruch San Francisco 

Henry Hecker Gilroy 

Edward F. Delger San Francisco 

Emmett Rittenhouse Santa Cruz 

H. P. Brown Hanford 

F. A. Garbutt Los Angeles 

A. C. Bird Compton 

S. O. Walker , Santa Ana 

W. G. Griffith Santa Barbara 



COLORADO. 



Delegates. 

Hubert Work Pueblo 

Crawford Hill Denver 

William Lennox Colorado Springs 

Thomas F. Walsh Littleton 

William A. Drake Fort Collins 

Robert G. Breckenridge Monte Vista 



AT LARGE. 

Alternates. 

Bulkeley Wells Telluride 

James Williams Denver 

Charles Tarbell Saguache 

H. G. Koch Aspen 

Thomas Campbell Denver 

John E. Holmberg Denver 



DISTRICTS. 



1 — Whitney Newton Denver 

A. A. Reed Boulder 

2— Clyde C. Dawson Canon City 

A. A. Rollestone Victor 



Henry C. Watson Greeley 

W. R. Freeman Denver 

A. N. Parrish Lamar 

W. Z. Kinney Silverton 



CONNECTICUT. 



AT LARGE 

Delegates. 

Charles Hopkins Clark Hartford 

Isaac M. Ullman New Haven 

Timothy E. Hopkins Danielson 

Or samus R. Fyler Torrington 

Charles F. Brooker Ansonia 

Michael Kenealy ..Stamford 



Alternates. 

Albert N. Abbe New Britain 

T. Macdonough Russell Middleton 

Theodore Bodenwein New London 

Ebenezer J. Hill Norwalk 

Alton Farrel Ansonia 

Schuyler Merritt Stamford 



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CONNECTICUT — Continued. 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates. Alternates. 

1— Charles M. Jarvis .Berlin Patrick Garvan Hartford 

George E. Keeney Somers William H. Hall Willington 

2— Denis A. Blakeslee New Haven F. A. Wallace Wallingford 

Andrew N. Shepard Portland C. J. Bates Chester 

3— Edwin Milner Plainfield George A. Hammond Putnam 

Angus Park Hanover John Eccles Taftville 

4— J. Henry Roraback Canaan Arthur L. Clark Winsted 

William E. Burnham Bridgeport Sidney E. Hawley Brookfield 

DELAWARE. 

AT LARGE. 

Delegates. Altemaies. 

Preston Lea Wilmington Thomas Coleman duPont Wilmington 

Henry A. duPont Wilmington Lewis Heisler Ball Faulkland 

Harry A. Richardson Dover William D. Denney Dover 

Hiram R. Burton Lewes Charles L. Moore Georgetown 

DISTRICT. 

Walter O. Hoffecker Smyrna William Ellison Camden 

John G. Townsend Selbyville Louis A. Drexler Selbyville 

FLORIDA. 

AT LARGE. 

Delegates. Alternates. 

J. M. Coombs... Apalachicola William H. Lucas Jacksonville 

Joseph E. Lee Jacksonville John F. Horr Key West 

Henry S. Chubb Winter Park P. H. Davidson Pensacola 

M. B. Macfarlane Tampa Nelson McMillan St. Augustine 

DISTRICTS. 

1— George W. Allen Key West G. B. Patterson Key West 

Henry W. Chandler Ocala J. L. Moore Tampa 

2— D. T. Gerow Jacksonville John W. Howell Fernandina 

D. M. Pappy St. Augustine M. W. Wiggins Jacksonville 

3— Wm. N. Northup Pensacola F. Lavette Apalachicola 

Isaac Jenkins Tallahassee T. F. McGourin Pensacola 

GEORGIA. 

AT LARGE. 

Delegates. Alternates. 

Walter H. Johnson Columbus J. W. Gilbert Augusta 

Judson W. Lyons Augusta George F. White Macon 

Henry L. Johnson Atlanta W. H. Harris ...Athens 

Clark Grier Dublin S. S. Mincey. Alley 

DISTRICTS. 

1— John H. Deveaux Savannah A. J. Gould Vidalia 

Henry Blun, Jr.... Savannah St. J. B. Alexander Reidsville 



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GEORGIA — Continued. 



DISTRICTS. 



Delegates. 
2— Ben. J. Davis Atlanta 

Hal. F. Brimberry Albany 

3— F. G. Boatwright Cordele 

George F. Thomas Hawkinsville 

4 — E. J. Hinton Woodbury 

Alfred Abies Buena Vista 

5 E. F. Blodgett Atlanta 

A. Brown Atlanta 

6 — Alexander Akerman Macon 

W. O. Emory Macon 

7— J. P. Dyer Adairsville 

Frank J. Wimberley Gilmore 

8— M. B. Morton Athens 

I. E. Porche Washington 

9— J. B. Gaston Gainesville 

A. J. Spence Nelson 

]0--John M. Barnes Thomson 

B. W. S. Daniels Sparta 

11— J. M. Wilkinson Valdosta 

M. C. Parker Ice 



Alternates. 

Glenn O. Smith Ashburn 

W. A. J. Moseley Thomasville 

F. P. Mitchell Americus- 

John T. Nobles Perry 

A. M. Kelley Newman 

C. D. Williams Tazewell 

W. R. Watson Lithonia 

W. F. Penn Atlanta 

T. W. Wood Forsythe 

Frank Disroon Macon 

E. S. Anderson Ringold 

H. C. T. Kittles Cave Spring 

E. J. Bell Elberton 

R. H. Simmons Greensboro- 

J. Edgar Puett Cummings 

Joe B. Landers Gainesville 

Charles T. Walker Augusta 

Shepard Peek, Sr Crawfordville 

W. C. Lane Valdosta 

L. L. Ellison McRae 



IDAHO. 

AT LARGE. 

Delegates. 

Tames H. Brady Boise 

C. C. Cavanah Boise 



L'. M. Heigho Weiser 

John W. Hart Menan 

1$. F. O'Neil Wallace 

Warren Truitt Moscow 



Alternates. 

R. J. Hayes 

F. E. Fisk Parma 

Peter J. Johnston 

W. L. Gifford Lewiston 

Alfred Page Wardner 



ILLINOIS 

AT LARGE. 

Delegates. 

Charles S. Deneen Springfield 

Fred A. Busse Chicago 

Shelby M. Cullom Springfield 

Albert J. Hopkins Aurora 



Alternates. 

William Hoason Galena 

Charles G. Eckhart Tuscola 

E. H. Smiley O'Fallon 

John R. Marshall Chicago 



DISTRICTS. 



1 — Chauncey Dewey Chicago 

Daniel J. Schuyler, Jr Chicago 

2— Roy O. West Chicago 

John R. Thompson Chicago 

3— Edward L. Roberts Chicago 

Wm. H. Weber Chicago 

4— David E. Shanahan Chicago 

Swan P. Norman Chicago 

5— August W. Miller Chicago 

William J. Cooke Chicago 



Edward H. Wright Chicago 

Oscar De Priest Chicago 

Oscar R. Hillstrom Chicago 

George K. Edwards Chicago 

Ernest Withall Chicago 

Charles Helander Chicaga 

Peter A. Johnson Chicago 

Mathias Mueller Chicago 

James J. Banks Chicago 

Jacob Diamond Chicago 



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ILLINOIS — Continued. 



DISTRICTS. 



Delegates. 

% — William Lorimer Chicago 

Fred M. Blount Chicago 

7 — D. A. Campbell Chicago 

A. A. Strom Chicago 

8 — John F. Devine Chicago 

Isidore H. Himes Chicago 

9 — Henry Sherman Boutell Chicago 

John J. Healy Chicago 

10 — James Pease Chicago 

Rollin A. Keyes Evanston 

11 — Howard M. Snapp Joliet 

William Grote Elgin 

12— Isaac L. Ellwood De Kalb 

Walter Reeves Stretator 

18— A. P. Woodruff Savanna 

Oscar Woods Morrison 

14— F. G. Allen Moline 

D. E. Mack Carthage 

15— Perry C. Ellis Quincy 

John I. Pierce Kewanee 

16— Whiter S. Horton Peoria 

Robert D. Clarke Peoria 

17— Frank L. Smith D wight 

Abraham L. Phillips Gibson City 

18— Lem Small Kankakee 

Charles P. Hitch Paris 

19 — William B. McKinley Champaign 

Hugh Crea Decatur 

20— Stuart Pierson Carrollton 

H. S. Savage Virginia 

21— William B. Ridgeley Springfield 

Frank R. Milnor Litchfield 

22— W. A. Rodenberg East St. Louis 

Edmund Beall Alton 

23— W. F. Bundy Centralia 

A. H. Jones Robinson 

24— Fred W. Potter 

James B. Blackman 

25 — Henry H. Kehn Anna 

Thomas John Murphysboro 

I 



Alternates. 

Allen S. Ray Oak Park 

William G. Gregori Chicago 

William Busse Elk Grove 

Jetlee B. Nordhem Chicago 

Leland Berz Chicago 

Edward J. Smejkal Chicago 

Charles Burmeister Chicago 

Christopher Strassheim Chicago 

John D. Pope Waukegan 

Carlton Prouty Winnekta 

A. A. Crissey Marengo 

M. Slusser v . . . Downer's Grove 

Frank Tyler ; Newark 

E. H. Keeler..... Rockford 

J. Stewart Lemont Apple River 

D. W. Baxter Rochelle 

F. O. Van Galder Rock Island 

George W. Rayburn Roseville 

Henry W. Crane Oneida 

A. W. Ball Rushville 

Augustus G. Hammond Wyoming 

Thomas L. Jones Henry 

Frederick J. Simater Minonk 

B. R. Behrends Hartsburg 

W. R Jewell Danville 

George T. Buckingham Danville 

J. H. Marshall Charleston 

Charles E. McPheeters Sullivan 

John H. Coats Winchester 

Jos. Rhineberger Havana 

Edward Wilson Carlinville 

Roy R. Reese Springfield 

J. H. Holbrook Dubois 

M. D. Muir Greenville 

Roy T. Risley Mt. Carmel 

Vincent Dobbins Sumner 

S. B. Kerr 

B. M. Maxey 

Walter Wood Cairo 

Herbert Beattie Redbud 



INDIANA. 



AT LARGE. 



Delegates. 

Albert J. Beveridge Indianapolis 

James A. Hemenway Boonville 

J. Frank Hanly Indianapolis 

James P. Goodrich Winchester 



Alternates. 

Ernest G. Tidrington Evansville 

Elmer Leonard Fort Wayne 

Enos L. Nebeker Covington 

Charles S. Hernly Newcastle 



DISTRICTS. 

1— Marcus S. Sonntag Evansville W. H. Benninghoff Evansville 

D. E. Cadick Grand View J. H. Thornburg Boonville 



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INDIANA— Continued. 



DISTRICTS. 



Delegates. 

"2 — James W. Emison Vincennes 

Charles E. Henderson Bloomfield 

Z — John C. Zulauf Jefferson ville 

Thomas J. Wilson Corydon 

4 — William A. Guthrie Dupont 

Elbert Mc Alpin Greenwood 

5— William R. McKeen Terre Haute 

John G. Bryson Brazil 

6 — Rudolph Leeds Richmond 

Charles Campbell Shelby ville 

7 — Charles A. Bookwalter. . .Indianapolis 

Joseph B. Kealing Indianapolis 

8 — William N. Durbin Anderson 

E. B. Edmunds Bluffton 

9— Strange N. Cragun Lebanon 

J. A. Kautz Kokomo 

10 — George Ade Kentland 

A. K. Sills Monticello 

11— George A. Osborn Marion 

Harry G. Tucker Logansport 

12— G. Will Wilson Ft. Wayne 

Thomas S. Wickwire Angola 

13— F. E. Lambert South Bend 

T. M. Bracket Rochester 



Alternates. 

Gus C. Davis Bloomington 

William F. Brooks Bedford 

Jonce Monyhan Orleans 

Lawton C. Mace Scottsburg 

Jacob M. Bauer Lawrenceburg 

B. F. Schneck Seymour 

George W. Faris 

Harris A. Waters Brazil 

John Shirk Brookville 

A. L. Riggs Rushville 

L. C. Boyd Indianapolis 

James II . Lott... Indianapolis 

F. L. Wachtell Muncie 

Michael Somers Winchester 

J. F. Neal Noblesville 

Byron R. Russell Crawfordsville 

Warren D. Simpkins Boswell 

George A. Williams Rensselaer 

Charles A. Haas Wabash 

A. G. Lupton Hartford City 

Caldwell W. Tuttle Columbia City 

Hugh R. Culbertson Butler 

Christian Christiansen Hamlet 

F. E. Garn Plymouth 



IOWA. 



AT LARGE 

Delegates. 

•George D. Perkins Sioux City 

Lafayette Young Des Moines 

Joseph R. Lane Davenport 

Frank Simmons Ottumwa 



Alternates. 

E. J. C. Bealer Cedar Rapids 

W. F. Lake Arlington 

D. L. Heinsheimer Glenwood 

George H Spahr Mt. Pleasant 



DISTRICTS. 



1 — Horace S. Rand Burlington 

Hazen I. Sawyer Keokuk 

2— David Brant Iowa City 

Frank W. Ellis Clinton 

3 — Eugene Schaffter Eagle Grove 

J. R. Guthrie Dubuque 

4 — Duncan Rule Mason City 

Charles Webster Waucoma 

h — E. R. Moore Cedar Rapids 

S. Wortheim Belle Plaine 

6 — John F. Lacey Oskaloosa 

M. A. McCord Newton 

7— C. R. Quade Ames 

L. N. Hays Knoxville 

S— Frank M. Abbott Creston 

J. W. Harvey Leon 



H. E. Curran Wapello 

S. A. White Washington 

R. G. Popham Marengo 

George E. Hilsinger Sabula 

Ralph H. Clock Hampton 

H. C. Chappell Independence 

Willard L. Eaton Osage 

W. E. Beddow Waukon 

C. O. Boling Tipton 

E. G. Peet Anamosa 

Jesse Macey Grinnell 

J. A. Spears Buxton 

John A. Gueyer Winterset 

C. R. Lyon 

W. E. Crum Bedford 

T. S. Stevens Hamburg 



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IOWA — Continued. 



DISTRICTS 

Delegates. 

9— J. S. Dewell Missouri Valley 

L. F. Potter Harlan 

10— Robert Healy Fort Dodge 

A. D. Clark Algona 

11— M. E. De Wolf Spencer 

W. C. Metcalf Paulina 



Alternates. 

A. L. Brooks Audubon 

D. H. Scott Griswold 

S. G. Goldthwaite Boone 

John Wichman Garner 

Simon Fisher Rock Rapids 

George B. Perkins Sac City 



KANSAS. 



AT LARGE. 

Delegates. 

Chester I. Long Medicine Lodge 

Charles Curtis Topeka 

R. J. McGonigal Colby 

Grant Hornaday Ft. Scott 



Alternates. 

W. T. Vernon Kansas City- 
Thomas Noftzger Anthony 

James Smith Palmer 

J. T. Moore Pittsburg 



DISTRICTS. 



1 — Arthur Capper .Topeka 

Cyrus Leland, Jr Troy 

2 — O . J . Peterson Kansas City 

A. Bigelow Gardner 

3 — W. S. Fitzpatrick .Sedan 

E. B. Stevens Parsons 

4 — Harry Hagaman Onaga 

A. H. Wheeler Marion 

5— R. T. Stansfield Belleville 

W. V. Husted Clay Center 

6 — Charles Landis Osborne 

Otis L. Benton.' Oberlin 

7 — W. M. Kinnison Garden City 

P. B. Gillette Kingman 

8 — George H. Hunter Wellington 

Benjamin McLean Wichita 



John Berry Troy 

T. W. Bell Leavenworth 

Benjamin F. Blacker Pleasanton 

George L. Davis Lawrence 

C. N. Hunt Arkansas City 

A. Bauman Fredonia. 

D. C. Lake Osage City 

Harry Melrose Eskridge 

C. E. Ingalls Washington 

G. W. Schmidt Junction City 

Frederick Beeler Jewell City 

T. G. O'Donnell Ellsworth 

Walter S. Kenyon Jetmore 

Joseph Degen Hoisington 

C. H. Selig Eldorado 

S. M. Law Cantoai 



KENTUCKY 



AT LARGE 

Delegates. 

Augustus E. Willson Frankfort 

A. R. Burnam Richmond 

Wm. Marshall Bullitt Louisville 

E. W. Lane Frankfort 



Alternates. 

Roy Wilhoit Ashland' 

M. Rey Yarberry Columbia 

Will P. Scott Dawson Springs 

Tohn McWhirter Louisville 



DISTRICTS. 



1 — Frank Boyd Paducah 

C. H. Linn Kuttawa 

2 — A. H. Anderson Hopkinsville 

R. W. Hunter Providence 

3— J. Tom Doores ..Bowling Green 

H. Brister Russellville 



Frank M. Fisher Paducah 

L. W. Key Mayfield 

John S. Adair Hawesville 

Geo. W. Adams Rumsey 

John Welsh Bon Ayr 

M. M. Kennedy Elkton 



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KENTUCKY — Continued. 



DISTRICTS. 



Delegates. 

-4— John P. Haswell, Jr Hardinsburg 

Tom C. Jackson Lebanon 

5 — Andrew Cowan Louisville 

Morris B. Belknap Louisville 

6 — J. A. McPherson Williamsto wn 

Richard P. Ernst Covington 

7 — Chas. H. Kerr Lexington 

Geo. L. Barnes Frankfort 

8— Waller Bennett Richmond 

R. L. Davison Stanford 

9 — W. D. Cochran Maysville 

E. S. Hitchens Olive Hill 

10 — James A. Wallace Irvine 

Allan N. Cisco West Liberty 

11— E. S. Helburn Middlesboro 

F. P. Combest ,. Phil 



Alternates. 

H. F. Trautman Sheperdsville 

G. W. Colvin Springfield 

Herman F. Monroe Louisville 

John W. Barr Louisville 

John H. Meyer Newport 

Alfred Gowling Newport 

German B. Miller Spears 

Miles M. J. Williams Eminence 

J. B. Kincheloe Shelby ville 

E. B. Stratton Taylorsvilh? 

Thomas Thompson Louisa 

W. J. Fall Salt Lick 

Walker Jameson Beatty ville 

T. Timberlake Winchester 

C K. Calvert Hyden 

R M. Stanberry Barbourville 



LOUISIANA. 

AT LARGE. 

{With half vote each.) 



Delegates. 

Henry C. Warmoth Lawrence 

Pearl Wight New Orleans 

Henry McCall McCall 

Alexander B. Kennedy New Orleans 

Walter L. Cohen New Orleans 

Emile Kuntz New Orleans 

Joseph Fabacher New Orleans 

Bevery V. Barance New Orleans 



Alternates. 

George J. Reily Clinton 

John A. Thornton Morgan City 

William P. Luck New Orleans 

Isaac Bell Shreveport 

John Marks New Orleans 

A. Romain New Orleans 

R. E. Jones New Orleans 

J. A. Hines Alexandria 



DISTRICTS. 



{With half 

1— Wm. J. Brophy New Orleans 

Felix J. Berhel New Orleans 

J. Madison Vance New Orleans 

Edward Young New Orleans 

2— Rufus E. Foster New Orleans 

Christopher C. Wilson.. New Orleans 

Mark G. Bobe New Orleans 

C. H. Thompson New Orleans 

3 — Jules Godchaux Raceland 

Albert M. Dupont Houma 

P. H. Segura New Iberia 

J. M. Haggerty Houma 

A — S. H. Bolinger Shreveport 

S. F. Steere Shreveport 

W. J. Walker Shreveport 

S. P. Brown Shreveport 



vote each.) 

Arthur Birou New Orleans 

Harry Mahoney Jesuit Bend 

Charles W. Dale New Orleans 

Chas. W. Boothby New Orleans 

George W. McDuff New Orleans 

Aristide E. P. Albert New Orleans 

Eugene Augustus Lucy 

P. H. V. Dejoie New Orleans 

Walter Y. Kemper Franklin 

Louis Corde Napoleonville 

D. W. Williams Morgan City 

Joseph Tregle Napoleonville 

V. M. Rich Keatchie 

S. H. Ralph Shreveport 

A. Bernstien Shreveport 

J. M. Carter Shreveport 



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Delegates. 

5— W. T. Insley Delhi 

James C. Weaks Monroe 

J. W. Cooke Lake Providence 

S. W. Greene Lake Providence 

6— W. J. Behan White Castle 

George J. Reiley Clinton 

Alex. Solomon Plaquemine 

H. J. Yoist New Roads 

7 — Chas. F. Boagui 1 Opelousas 

Wm. B. Gabbert Welsh 

W. L. Jones Lake Charles 

B. A. Guidy Opelousas 



LOUISIANA — Continued 

DISTRICTS. 



Alternates. 

Leopold Elgutter .Newelton 

S. J. Crump Athens 

H. L. Jones 

Elijah Kernell Vidalia 

W. R. Frazier Slidell 

H. D. Bickham Hackley 

Mayer Cohen New Roads 

Mike Winfield Baton Rouge 

W. O. Cornish Jennings 

Sherman Cook Alexandria 

D. J. Thomas Lake Charles 

A. R. 'Chargois Crowlejr 



Delegates. 

Thomas P. Shaw Portland 

Edward P. Ricker So. Poland 

John F. Hill Augusta 

Charles J. Dunn Owno 



MAINE. 

AT LARGE. 



Alternates. 

Robert McArthur Biddef ord 

Fred O. Smith New Vineyard 

Alexander C. Hagerthy Ellsworth 

George H. Smith Presque Isle 



DISTRICTS. 



1— Horace Mitchell K,ittery 

Richard Webb Portland 

2— Seth M. Carter Auburn 

William C. Thompson Bristol 

3 — Forrest Goodwin Skowhegan 

Byron Boyd Augusta 

4 — Frank E. Guernsey Dover 

Fred A. Chandler Addison 



Richmond H. Ingersoll Biddeford 

Arthur H. Moulton Portland 

Joseph W. Perkins wilton 

Frank C. Whitehouse Topsham 

Orlando W. Foss Hancock 

Charles E. Knowlton Belfast 

Carl E. Milliken Island Falls 

Francis P. McCall Eastport 



Delegates. 

Sydney E. Mudd La Plata 

Felix Agnus Baltimore 

George A. Pearre Cumberland 

William P. Jackson Salisbury 



MARYLAND. 

AT LARGE. 



Alternates. 

George B. Merrick Upper Marlboro 

Charles R. Schirm Baltimore 

Charles D. Wagaman Hagerstown 

John D. Urie 



DISTRICTS. 



1 — Phillips Lee Goldsborough — Cambridge 

Joseph I. France Port Deposit 

2— C. Ross Mace Baltimore 

William T. Henry Baltimore 

3 — William S. Booze Baltimoie 

George W. Padgett Baltimore 

4— H. C. Algire Baltimore 

William M. Alexander Baltimore 

6— Thomas Parran St. Leonards 

Gustavus B. Timanus Laurel 

€— William U. Roulette Hagerstown 

John P. T. Mathias Thurmont 



Robert F. Duer Princess Anne 

David P. McManiman Chestertown 

Thomas V. Richardson Phoenix 

Alfonso Wy szecki Baltimore 

John A. Janetzke Baltimore 

George B. Flynn Baltimore 

William A. Montell Baltimore 

Alexander Hemsley Baltimore 

John Bowie Annapolis Junction 

T. Spencer Crane California 

William Schnauffer Brunswick 

Webster Ravenscroft Oakland 



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MASSACHUSETTS. 



AT LARGE. 

Delegates. 

Henry Cabot Lodge.. Nahant 

Winthrop Murray Crane Dalton 

John D. Long Hingham 

Sidney O. Bigney Atlleboro 



Alternates. 

Winfield S. Schuster Douglas 

James F. Shaw Manchester 

Frank E. Dunbar Lowell 

Ralph D. Gillett Westfield 



DISTRICTS. 



]— William H. Brooks Holyoke 

Frank H. Wright. . .Great Barrington 
2 — John W. Wheeler Orange 

Winford N. Caldwell Springfield 

3— Samuel E. Winslow Worcester 

Henry T. Whitin Northbridge 

4 — Louis E. Carlton Gardnii 

George H. Doty Waltham 

.5 — Alonzo G. Walsh Lowell 

Walter E. Parker Lawrence 

6— Charles M. Hoyt Haverhill 

Albert Vittum Beverly 

7— Frank A. Bayrd Maiden 

Charts H. Hastings Lynn 

S— Edward Glines Somerville 

Samuel J. Elder Winchester 

9— Edward G. Graves Boston 

William E. White Boston 

in— H. Clifford Gallagher Milton 

Archibald T. Davison Boston 

1L — Charles H. Innes Boston 

Isaiah R. Clark Boston 

12 — William O. Faxon Stough*on 

Edward W. Baker Brookline 

13— William M. Butler Edgartown 

John Crowther Fall River 

14 — Eben S. S. Keith Bourne 

Emery M. Low Brockton 



Franklin E. Snow Greenfield 

Arthur W. Eaton Pittsfield 

J. H. Schoonmaker Ware 

George W. Cooke Barre 

Leander F. Herrick Worcester 

J. A. Dodge Grafton 

John Shirreffs Fitchburg 

Samuel O. Staples Framingham 

Thomas Talbot Billerica 

Henry Bradford Lewis Andover 

William H. Gove Salem 

Ralph W. Dennen Gloucester 

John E. Brittain Melrose 

Alfred S. Hall Revere 

Wilton B. Fay Medford 

Samuel W. Mendum Woburn 

James W. H. Myrick Boston 

Jeremiah J. McCarthy Boston 

Harrison H. Atwood Boston 

Franklin L. Codman Boston 

Edward C. Webster Boston 

Clarence H. Robinson Boston 

George F. Birch .....Milford 

George L. Barnes Weymouth 

Jean B. Jean.. New Bedford 

Edward A. Thurston Fall River 

Charles B. Barnes, Jr Hingham 

Frederick M. Atwood Taunton 



MICHIGAN. 

AT LARGE. 



Delegates. 

E. D. Stair Detroit 

John W. Blodgett Grand Rapids 

Frank W. Gilchrist Grand Rapids 

Tames McNaughton Calumet 



Alternates. 

Charles B. Warren Detroit 

W. J. Hunsaker Saginaw 

H. A. Frambach Cheboygan 

John W. Pfeifler Edmore 



DISTRICTS. 



1— Geo. P. Codd Detroit 

August Marxhausen Detroit 

1- Grant Fellows Hudson 

Robert L. Warren Ann Arbor 



Oscar B. Marx Detroit 

James W. Ames Detroit 

Charles E. Ulrickson Jackson 

William F. Knapp Monroe 



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MICHIGAN — Continued. 



DISTRICTS. 



Delegates. 

3— William R. Wooden Battle Creek 

Dallas Boudeman Kalamazoo 

4 — Marshall S. Cook Hastings 

Frank S. Cummings Centerville 

5 — Roy S. Barnhart Grand Rapids 

Wm. B. Heath Ionia 

6 — Ransom E. Olds Lansing 

William C. Manchester Detroit 

7— William H. Wallace Bay Port 

James Foster Peck 

S— Jos. W. Fordney.. Saginaw West Side 

Edmund O. Dewey Owosso 

9 — Jeremiah Sullivan Cedar 

Gardner T. Sands Pintwater 

10— Edgar B. Foss Bay City 

Nelson Sharpe West Brancn 

11 — Francis King Alma 

Michael Brown Big Rapids 

12— Chase S. Osborn. .. .Sault Ste. Marie 

William H. Johnston Ishpeming 



Alternates. 

H. C. Loveridge Coldwater 

Bert W. Kennedy Grand Lodge 

Frank B. Watkins Hopkins P. O. 

Charles K. Warren Three Oaks 

W. Millard Palmer Grand Rapids 

John B. Mulder Holland 

Fred R. Ottaway Flint 

John B. Barron Howell 

William Gray Mt. Clemens 

George H. Brown Port Huron 

Will H. Brunson ........St. Johns 

Alexander Huston ... Tuscola 

E. O. Shaw • Newaygo 

Wm. L. Hammond Ludington 

H. K. Gustin Alpena 

Frank L. Prindle Gladwin 

Richard M. Bilby Lake City 

Newell A. French Kalkaskia 

George W. Earle Hermansville 

Ira C. Jennings Escanaba 



MINNESOTA. 



AT LARGE 

Delegates. 

Frank B. Kellogg St. Paul 

Walter W. Heffelfinger Minneapolis 

Edward B. Hawkins Biwabik 

Frank E. Putnam Blue Earth 



Alternates. 

Frank E. Bentley Montevideo 

Cassius M. Sprague Sauk Center 

Delevan C. Sheldon Pine Island 

William B. Marr Aitkin 



DISTRICTS. 



1— Alexander S. Campbell Austin 

J. H. Adair Owatonna 

2 — Thos. C. Collins " Vindom 

Fred W. Betz Fairmont 

?,— C. M. Buck Faribault 

George J. Bradley Norwood 

4— William B. Webster St. Paul 

George H. Sullivan Stillwater 

5— Otto E. Greeley Minneapolis 

William H. Eustis Minneapolis 

6— C. J. Gunderson Alexandria 

S. F. Alderman Brainerd 

7 — Andrew Peterson Wheaton 

O. A. Grimmestad Belview 

8— Joseph B. Cotton Duluth 

Charles J. Swanson Fridley 

3— John P. Hedberg Warroad 

Eben E= Corliss Fergus Falls 



O. B. Nelson Spring Grove 

Alex. G. Brundin Albert Lea 

Daniel Shell Worthington 

Frank W. Hunt Mankato 

C P. Diepenbrock Red Wing 

A. L. Young Gibbon 

Walter L. Chapin St. Paul 

J. A. Rystrom North Branch 

L. S. Swenson ^ . Minneapolis 

Carl J. Lundquist Minneapolis 

E. E. Greeno Staples 

Geo. E. Means Buffalo 

H. W. Stone Benson 

Lewis P. Johnson Ivanhoe 

Fred D. Vibert Cloquet 

Ernest H. Sellhorn Bricton 

Daniel Patterson St. Hilaire 

A. O. Natland Audubon 



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MISSISSIPPI. 



AT LARGE. 

Delegates. 

L. B. Moseley Jackson 

J. B. Yellowley Ridgeland 

W. E. Mollison Vicksburg 

Charles Banks Mound Bayou 



Alternates. 

J. C. Tyler ..Beloxf 

M. S. Love Canton 

E. P. Jones Vicksburg 

E. B. Topp Jackson 



DISTRICTS. 



1 — Parke Daniels Starkeville 

M. A. Blanchard Muldon 

2— E. H. McKissack Holly Springs 

M. H. Daily Coldwater 

3— Benj. F. Lacey Shiloh 

Louis Waldauer Greenville 

4— H. W. Durrant Coffeyville 

W. W. Phillips Kosciusko 

5 — W. J. Price Meridian 

T. J. Wilson Meridian 

6— W. A. Collins Hattiesburg 

Thos. I. Keys Ocean Springs 

7— W. O. Ligon Gloster 

E'. F. Brennan Brookhaven 

8— M. J. Mulvihill . . . = Vicksburg 

Wesley Crayton Vicksburg 



J. M. Dickey Corinth 

A. S. Shannon Tupelo 

J. A. Q. Williams Holly Springs 

J. D. Taylor Como 

J W. Lockhart Lexington 

A. W. Starks Shaw 

H. L. Rhodes Ackerman 

D. W. Turner Okolono 

F. J. Stephens Taylorville 

A. Buckley Enterprise 

A. A. Edwards Laurel 

M. Dedaux Pass Christian 

Thos. Richardson Port Gibson 

D. C. Wright Osyka 

Jere M. Blowe Vicksburg 

J. N. Cranberry Terry 



MISSOURI. 



AT LARGE 

Delegates. 

William Warner Kansas City 

Herbert S. Hadley Jefferson City 

John H. Bothwell Sedalia 

James R. Holmes Joplin 



Alternates. 

Nelson C. Crews Kansas City 

J. R. A. Crossland.. St. Joseph 

C. K. Robinson St. Louis 

H. G. Phillips Sedalia 



DISTRICTS. 



1 — John E. Gilleland New Cambria 

Edward Spangler Kahoka 

2 — Louis Benecke Brunswick 

G. D. Viles Norborne 

3— J. E. Gartside Kingston 

G. W. Barlow Bethany 

4 — Frank B. Fulkerson St. Joseph 

David Rankin Tarkio 

5 — Henry M. Beardsley Kansas City 

Lawrence M. Jones Kansas City 

6— Phil S. Griffith 

Charles A. Mitchell 

7 — H. W. Meuschke Sedaiia 

Harry E. Patton Springfield 

8 — Julius H. Conrath Jefferson City 

Walter S. Harris Sturgeon 



Henry H. Jones Memphis 

Albert W. Selway Williamstown 

Leon W. Kelly Moberly 

C. T. C. White Paris 

C. N. Burnham Cameron 

B F. Channell Weatherby 

H B. McAfee Parkville 

F. K. Allen Craig 

C. S. Jobes Kansas City 

Bernard Zick, Jr Independence 

William H. Allen 

Bernard Zick 

John W. Blackburn Malta Bend 

G. C. Burnside Humansville 

Otto Fritsch McGirk 

R. A. Xorfleet Excelsior 



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MISSOURI — Continued. 



DISTRICTS. 



Delegates. 
9—H. A. Brewer Hermann 

Wm. Epperson New London 

10- Edward Koeln St. Louis 

Rowland L. Johnston Clayton 

11— Henry Droste St. Louis 

Jeptha D. Howe St. Louis 

12 — Hiram Lloyd St. Louis 

Joseph L. Boehm St. Louis 

13 — Marion E. Rhodes Potosi 

Joseph W. Caldwell Marble Hill 

14— Wm. P. Sullivan Billings 

Edward H. Regenhardt 

Cape Girardeau 

1»— G. C. Willson Nevada 

C. E. Matthews Webb City 

ltf — James H. Covert Houston 

George F. Gilbert Marshfield 



Alternates. 

Edward Gut St. Charles 

Charles Chapman Louisiana 

Chas. W. Rutledge St. Louis 

Samuel W. Wiil Mehlville 

James H. Harrison St. Louis 

John J. Latal St. Louis 

W. H. Mansifee St. Louis 

C. E. Williams St. Louis 

Gary H. Yount Van Buren 

Charles Gay Ironton 

John H. Dunmire Kennett 

Henry S. Wilson Ava 

Pierce Gurley Purdy 

D. S. Flowers Pierce City 

William P. Elmer ...Salem 

Samuel R. Farrar Lebanon 



MONTANA. 



AT LARGE. 

Delegates. 

Charles R. Leonard Butte 

Thomas A. Marlow Helena 

Charles N. Bair Billings 

F. M. Malone Miles City 

John G. Blair Chouteau 

A. K. Bennett Virginia City 



Alternates. 

J. B. Glose Anaconda 

H. H. Strain Great Falls 

Henry F. Meyer Redlodge 

A. W. Mills Livingston 

Paul McCormick Billings 

Joseph Corby Butte 



NEBRASKA. 



AT LARGE 

Delegates. 

George L. Sheldon Lincoln 

Norris Brown Kearney 

Victor Rosewater Omaha 

Allen W. Field Lincoln 



Alternates. 

Melvin R. Hopewell Tekamah 

Paul H. Marlay Mason City 

Irving G. Baright Omaha 

Alexander C. Rankin Oxford 



DISTRICTS. 



1 — Elmer J. Burkett Lincom 

J. H. Arends Syracuse 

2 — Myron L. Learned Omaha 

Arthur C. Smith Omaha 

3— W. N. Huse Norfolk 

Frank P. Voter Laurel 

4— T. E. Williams Aurora 

Samuel Rinakcr Beatrice 

5— A. W. Sterne Grand Island 

J. C. Gammill Stockville 

6— O. O. Snyder O'Neill 

W. A. George .Broken Bow 



J. A . McPherrin Tecumseh 

Norman Musselman Falls City 

John F. White Blair 

James R. Wilson Papillion 

J. C. Elliott West Point 

John Wright Fullerton 

W. D. Galbraith Hebron 

John Skinner Osceola 

A. J. Jenison Harvard 

C. W. Kaley Red Cloud 

T. H. Doran Burwell 

H. T. Wisner Scotts Bluff 



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NEVADA. 

Delegates. AT LARGE - Alternates. 

George S. Nixon Reno M. D. Staunton Winnemucca 

P. L. Flanigan Reno O. R. Morgan Reno 

Hugh H. Brown Tonapah O. J. Smith Reno 

J. F. Douglas..... Goldfield John G. Thompson GoldfLld 

George B. Russell Elko C. A. Ahern Virginia City 

William Easton Austin R. W. Parry Reno 

NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

Delegates. AT LARGE - Alternates. 

Jacob H. Gallinger Concord George B. Leighton Dublin 

Edwin G. Eastman Exeter James L. Gibson Conway 

Chester B. Jordan Lancaster George H. Moses Concord 

Edwin F. Jones Manchester William Parker Straw Manchester 

DISTRICTS. 

1— William F. Harrington . . . Manchester Perry H. Dow Manchester 

Alfred F. Howard Portsmouth Arthur G. Whittemore Dover 

2— Lester F. Thurber Nashua C. Gale Shedd Keene 

Seth M. Richards Newport William F. Thayer Concord 

NEW JERSEY. 

Delegates. AT LARGE " Alternates. 

John Franklin Fort East Orange Walter B. Edge Atlantic City 

John Kean Elizabeth C. Edward Murray Trenton 

Frank O. Briggs Trenton Daniel S. Voorhees Morristown 

David Baird Camden Lewis S. Thompson Lincroft 

DISTRICTS. 

1— H. C. Loudenslager Paulsboro William F. Powell Camden 

E. Ambler Armstrong Camden Frederick A. Gentieu Pennsgrove 

2 — Robert E. Hand Erma Morris Davis Bridgeton 

Samuel K, Robbins Moorestown Edward A. Wilson Atlantic City 

3— Thomas N. McCarter Red Bank Chauncey C. Baldwin Perth Amboy 

George Smith Lakewood Frank R. Jones New Brunswick 

4— Ferdinand W. Roebling Trenton Charles H. Baker Trenton 

C. Ledyard Blair Bernardsville Alexander B. Allen Flemington 

5 — Richard H. Williams Madison John Capstick Madison 

Ernest R. Ackerman Plainfield James White Elizabeth 

G -William Barbour Paterson Judson K. Gunn Newton 

John R. Ramsey Hackensack Victor L. Mason Passaic 

7 — Winton C. Garrison Newark Augustus F. Eggers Newark 

Thomas D. Webb Orange W. I. Lincoln Adams Montclair 

3— Leslie D. Ward Newark Wilbur A. Mott South Orange 

William F. Allen 

South Orange Village George A. Douglas Newark 

9 — Joseph A. Dear Jersey City Clarence Van Deeren Harrison 

Pierre P. Garven Bayonne James Allardice Jersey City 

l(V-John A. Blair Jersey Ci'y Henry Bell Town of Union 

George Gonzales Hoboken Henrv Frank, Tr Weehawken 



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NEW YORK. 

AT LARGE. 

Delegates. Alternates. 

Stewart L. Woodford. .. .New York Cityjohn Raines Canandaigua 

Seth Low New York City Thomas P. Peters Brooklyn 

Frederick R. Hazard SyracuseNorman J. Gould Senaca Falls 

Edward H. Butler Buffalo Charles W. Anderson. .. .New York City 



DISTRICTS. 



1— John J. Bartlett Greenport 

Smith (.ox Freeport 

2 — Timothy L. Woodruff Brooklyn 

William Berri Brooklyn 

3— Alfred T. Hobley Brooklyn 

Frederick H. Schroeder Brooklyn 

4 — *John K. Neal Brooklyn 

Reuben L. Haskell Brooklyn 

5 — Lewis H. Pounds Brooklyn 

James P. Connell Brooklyn 

6— William M. Calder Brooklyn 

Alfred E'. Vass Brooklyn 

7 — Michael J. Dady Brooklyn 

Jacob Brenner Brooklyn 

8— Thomas A. Braniff St. George 

Joseph T. Hackett...New York City 
9— Charles H. Murray.. New York City 

Joseph Levenson New York City 

ID— Thomas Rothman, Sr 

New York City 

Samuel S. Koenig New York City 

11 — Ezra P. Prentice New York City 

Charles B. Page New York City 

12 — Chauncey M. Depew..New York City 

Job E. Hedges New York City 

18 — Herbert Parsons New York City 

Otto T. Bannard New York City 

14— William C. Hecht....New York City 
Theron H. Burden.. Long Island City 

15 — William Harris Douglas 

New York City 

George B. Agnew New York City 

16— Julius M. Mayer New York City 

James B. Reynolds. . .New York City 
17— William S. Bennet...New York City 

Alfred R. Page New York City 

IS— William H. Ten Eyck..New York City 

Edward H. Healy New York City 

19— William L. Ward Portchester 

John E. Andrus Yonkers 

20— Benjamin B. Odell, Jr Newburg 

Thomas W. Bradley Walden 

21 — Louis F. Payn Chatham 

Robert H. Hunter Poughkeepsie 



John B. C. Tappen Glen Cove 

George L. Thompson Kings Park 

Frank F. Schultz Brooklyn 

Ernest C. Wagner Brooklyn 

Adam H. Leich , Brooklyn 

Edward MacDonald • Brooklyn 

Rhinehard H. Pfarr Brooklyn 

Edward H. Taylor Brooklyn 

Fred C. Williams Brooklyn 

John Feitner Brooklyn 

William A. Prendergast Brooklyn 

Charles A. Schieren, Jr Brooklyn 

D. H. Ralston Brooklyn 

Frederick R. Moore Brooklyn 

John Timlin, Jr Rose Bank 

Thomas Law New York City 

Michael Ball New York City 

Abraham Kommel New York City 

Marcus Braun New York City 

Frank J. Dotzler New York City 

Edmund Bodine New York City 

Herman W. Beyer New York City 

Joseph Krulish New York City 

John S. Shea ..New York City 

Guy Van Amrige New York City 

Alexander V. Campbell. . .New York City 

Ladislav C. Frank New York City 

Ira G. Darrin Long Island City 

George W. Wanamaker. . .New York City 

Peter Banks New York City 

Samuel Krule witch New York City 

Morris Levy New York City 

Max S. Grifenhagen New York City 

John W. Kirby New York City 

August F. Schwargler. ..New York City 

Thomas W. Whittle New York City 

Francis M. Carpenter Mt. Kisco 

J. Mayhew Wainwright Rye 

Frank S. Anderson Callicoon 

James Kilby — Nyack 

Emerson W. Addis Brewster 

George Esselstyn Rhinebeck 



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NEW YORK — Continued. 



DISTRICTS. 



Delegates. 
22— Cornelius V. Collins Troy 

James S. Parker Salem 

23— William Barnes, Jr Albany 

Horace S. Van Voast... Schenectady 
24— J Duncan Lawrence Bloomville 

Gilbert D. B. Hasbrouck. ..Kingston 
26— Lucius N. Littauer Gloversville 

Edgar T. Brackett 

Saratoga Springs 

2C— George R. Malby Ogdensburg 

Wallace T. Foote, Jr.... Port Henry 
27 — Thomas R. Proctor Utica 

Charles S. Millington Herkimer 

28— George H. Cobb Watertown 

Luther W. Mott Oswego 

29 — Francis Hendricks Syracuse 

Francis H. Gates Chittenango 

SO— Thomas C. Piatt Owego 

George W. Dunn Binghamton 

31 — Sereno E'. Payne Auburn 

Frederick W. Griffith Palmyra 

32— George W. Aldridge Rochester 

James L. Hotchkiss Rochester 

33— Jacob Sloat Fassett Elmira 

Milo M. Acker Hornell 

34— James W. Wadsworth, Jr 

Mt. Morris 

Edward A. Washburn Batavia 

35 — John Grimm, Jr Buffalo 

Simon Seibert Buffalo 

36— Fred Greiner Buffalo 

Clark H. Timmermann Buffalo 

37— Albert T. Fancher Little Valley 

Cyrus E. Jones Jamestown 



Alternates. 

James Thompson Valley Falls 

Eugene R. Norton Granville 

Henry M. Sage Menands 

Charles E. Palmer Schenectady 

Richtmyer Hubbell Jefferson 

Martin Cantine Saugerties 

William B. Charles Amsterdam 

Frederick W. Kavanaugh Waterford 

Edwin A. Merritt, Jr Potsdam 

Charles E. Brush Moira 

Arthur T. Smith Herkimer 

S. W. Bensburg Utica 

C. Fred Boshart Lowville 

Thomas Hunter Fulton 

James M. Gilbert Syracuse 

B. Rush Wendell Madison 

Jotham P. Allds Norwich 

Thaddeus R. Clark Marathon 

James A. Thayer Penn Yan 

Charles C. Sackett Canandaigua 

Chas. J. White Brockport 

Frank M. Jones Webster 

J. B. H. Mongin Waterloo 

Owen Cassidy Watkins 

William H. Vicary Lockport 

Clark W. Moore Hulberton 

Charles J. Fix Buffalo 

John Reiman Buffalo 

Edward .Kerner, Jr Buffado 

Asher B. Emery East Aurora 

Herbert J. Dempsey Cuba 

H. M. Clark > Fredonia 



NORTH CAROLINA. 

AT LARGE. 



Delegates. 

Spencer B. Adams Greensboro 

E. Carl Duncan Raleigh 

Thomas S. Rollins Asheville 

Charles T. Harris Dillsboro 



Alternates. 

Augustus H. Price Salisbury 

James H. White Marshall 

Wm. J. Andrews Raleigh 

S. T. Everett Brevard 



DISTRICTS. 



1— Wheeler Martin Williamstown 

Harry Skinner Greenville 

2— Daniel W. Patrick Snow Hill 

Wm. F. Outland Woodland 

3— H. F. Brown Tuckahoe 



Frank G. Paul Washington 

Clarence R. Pugh Wauchese 

Reginald H. Norfleet Kelford 

Stephen W. Isler Kinston 

T. D. Hewitt .....Newport 



W. H. Sawyer Stonewall R. W. Blackmore Warsaw 



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NORTH CAROLINA — Continued. 



DISTRICTS. 



Delegates. 



4~ James C. Stancil Benson 

WiLis G. Briggs Raleigh 

5 — B. S. Roberston Haw River 

Guy Carter Dobson 

6— S. M. King Wilmington 

J. B. Schulken White ville 

7 — Theodo-e E. McCrary Lexington 

Samuel M. Jones Sanford 

8— C. H. Cowles Wilkesboro 

L. C. Wagoner. Statesville 

9— George K. Pritchard Bakersville 

John M. Rhodes Lincolnton 

10 — Charles French Toms 

Hendersonville 

T. F. Roland Ashevil'le 



Alternates. 

John C. Matthews , Spring Hope 

P. R. Hatch .....Youngville 

H. B. Worth .....Greensboro 

J. C. Angier .Durham 

T. E. Wallace ....Wilmington 

A. L. McCaskill .Fayetteville 

J. S. Lewis Ashboro 

Seth W. Laughlin ........Ashboro 

C. Call .Wilkesboro 

H. M. Wilborne ..Jefferson 

C. F. Blalock , ... Hickory 

D. Kirby Pope ! Charlotte 

A. L. Patterson Bryson 

D. A. Kanipe.. Marion 



NORTH DAKOTA. 



AT LARGE. 



Delegates. 

Jud A. La Moure Pembina 

C. B. Meredith Fargo 

C. J. Lord Cando 

Andrew Saudager Lisbon 

Lee Pettibone Dawson 

R. H. Johnson Dickinson 

Victor Rose Donnybrook 

C. H. Stebbins Granville 



Alternates. 

John Milney Langdon 

C. S. Morris ....Hope 

Charles T. Grace Battineau 

R. H. Hankinson Hankinson 

G. H. Keyes Ellendale 

R. M. Farrington Hettinger 

Paul Ware .....Minot 

E. C. Carney Williston 



OHIO. 
AT LARGE. 



Delegates. 

Andrew L. Harris Eaton 

Myron T. Herrick Cleveland 

Arthur 1. Vorys... .Lancaster 

Charles P. Taft Cincinnati 



Alternates. 

Oliver J. Gunkle Dayton 

Arthur M. Orr ...Piqua 

George E. Bradfield , ..Baruesville 

Alexander H. Martin Cleveland 



DISTRICTS. 



1 — George B. Cox Cincinnati 

Julius Fleischmann. ......... Cincinnati 

2 — Wade H. Ellis Cincinnati 

John Dornette, Jr Cincinnati 

3 — Charles W. Bieser Dayton 

Daniel W. Allaman Dayton 

4 — Frank T. Conkling Greenville 

D. C. Henderson Lima 

5— James D. Hill Montpelier 

William H. Daley .....Van Wert 



Rudolph K. Hynicka. ...Cincinnati 

August Herrmann Cincinnati 

August Kirbert Cincinnati 

Joseph G. Francis .Harrison 

Allen E. McDonald Dayton 

E. L. Morrow West Alexandria 

Albert Herzing Wapakoneta 

W. D. Steinmetz .....Greenville 

A. N. Wilcox Paulding 

A. Groweg, Jr . Defiance 



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OHIO —Continued. 

DISTRICTS. 

(Sixth District — with half vote each.) 



Delegates. 

6 11. iVJ. Brown Hillsboro 

Charles Q. Hildebrant. . .Wilmington 

Marcus Shoup Xenla 

R. VV. Gilchrist Lebanon 

7— W. P. Orr Piqua 

J. Warren Keifer Springfield 

a A. Jay Miller BJlefonaine 

William R. Wilson Urbana 

!' Noah H. Swayne Toledo 

P. K. Tadsen Port Clin. on 

IC Edwin Jones Wellston 

Philo S. Clark Portsmou h 

11— Clinton L. Poston Athens 

Zane W. Burley Crooksville 

12— J. D. Ellison Columb.is 

Harry M. Daugherty Columbus 

i: Grant E. Mouser Marion 

Charles A. Judson Sandusky 

14— F. V. Owen Mt. Vernon 

A. L. Garford Elyria 

1 r >— A . M. Morris Caldwell 

S. A. Weller Zanesville 

h Marshall N. Duvall Steubenville 

James F. Anderson Bellaire 

17 C. B. McCoy ..Coshocton 

Harry Bartollette Shreve. 

'"-James A. Martin Lisbon 

Henry A. Wise Canton 

19— P. C. Remick Jefferson 

A. J. Rowley Akron 

20 -Herman C. Baehr Cleveland 

Ernest S. Cook Cleveland 

-21— T. E. Burton Cleveland 

F. L. Taft Cleveland 



Alternates. 

Marion HamiLon Lebanon 

L. W. Hitch Ban.am 

Keyes Martin Ripley 

Amos Huffman Wilmington 

H. D. Pursell Washington C. H. 

M. J. Jenkins London 

Joseph Timmons Kent on 

Norman F. Overturf Delaware 

W. H. McMillan North Baltimore 

F. L. S. Darby Wauseon 

O. E. McHenry 

J. F. Bateman Waverly 

Albert D. Russell Pomeroy 

Charles R. Doll Chillicothe 

Philip Skeel e Columbus 

Harry B. Alexander Columbus 

Homer Metzger Tiffin 

Hiram Yeager Fremont 

Jacob Kahn Ashland 

John Russell Mt. Gilead 

John Q. Lyne McConnelsville 

Charles S. Dana Marietta 

C. A. Tope Carrollton 

W. E. Mallory Woodsfield 

John L. Lewis Granville 

Samuel W. Walter Gnadenhutten 

Harry T. Hall East Liverpool 

Alexander B. Love Al'iance 

E E. Roberts Warren 

W. S. Metcalfe Chardon 

George Wuchter Medina 

James Caldwell Cleveland 

Thomas W. Fleming Cleveland 

Joseph Carabelli Cleveland 



OKLAHOMA. 



AT LARGE 

Delegates. 

Dennis T. Flynh Oklahoma City- 
Bird S. McGuire Pawnee 

P. J. Dore Westville 

James Harris Wagoner 



Alternates. 

J. A. Sterrett Eufaula 

H. G. House Marietta 

A. H. Geissler Oklahoma City 

T. J. Hoyt Stillwater 



DISTRICTS. 



1 Vernon W. Whiting Enid 

Charles Seely Guthrie 

2 -George H. Dodson Oklahoma City 

E. S. Wiggins Woodward 



Fred W. Farrar Pawhuska 

Lew Headley Ponra City 

Tom Barrett Carmen 

T. H. Langston Guymon 



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OKLAHOMA — Continued. 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates. Alternates. 

3— T. A. Chandler Vinita Chas. O. Frye Sallisaw 

Walter Falwell Muskogee W. J. Smith Holdenville 

4— A. E. Perry.... Coalgate U. G. Winn Ada 

E. O. Butler Durant J. W. L. Corley Howe 

5— Frank V. Wright Lawton John J. Burke Norman 

John M. Kirkwood Gotebo Frederick A. Busse Sulphur 

OREGON. 

AT LARGE. 

Delegates. Alternates., 

C. W. Fulton Astoria J. H. Brown ' Portland 

George H. Williams Portland W. A. Williams Forest Grove 

A. G. Gilbert Salem A. L. Tetu Portland 

C. G. Huntley Oregon City H. C. Kinney Grants Pass- 

DISTRICTS. 

1— Ralph E. Williams Frank Ira White 

C. A. Sehlbrede E. D. Cusick 

2— Henry Waldo Coe Portland J. H. Kelly 

Asa B. Thompson Pendleton J. R. Gault Burns 



PENNSYLVANIA. 

AT LARGE. 

Delegates. Alternates. 

Edwin S. Stuart Harrisburg Marlin E. Olmsted Harrisburg 

James Elverson Philadelphia Theodore L. Flood... Meadville 

Charles A. Rook Pittsburg Samuel A. Kendall Somerset 

Robert P. Habgood Bradford Henry M. Warren Devon 

DISTRICTS. 

1— William S. Vare Philadelphia ■ Charles R. Campbell Philadelphia 

Israel W. Durham Philadelphia Jos. R. C. McAllister Philadelphia 

2 — David H. Lane Philadelphia Samuel Disston Philadelphia 

Boies Penrose Philadelphia Daniel B. Shepp Philadelphia 

3— James P. McNichol Philadelphia Jos. P. Bartilucci Philadelphia 

David Martin Philadelphia Henry J. Trainer Philadelphia 

4 — A. Lincoln Acker Philadelphia Peter E. Smith Philadelphia 

Charles D. Burk Philadelphia Thomas B. Smith Philadelphia 

5 — Samuel D. Lit Philadelphia Kennedy Crossan Philadelphia 

John T, Murphy Philadelphia Peter E. Costello Torresdale 

6-— Jos. B. McCall Philadelphia John O. Sheatz Philadelphia 

Joseph H. Bromley, Jr. .Philadelphia Ernest L. Tustin Philadelphia 

7— John B. Robinson Media John Cuncannon Kennett Square 

W. A. P.. Thompson Coatesville S. Everett Sproul Chester 

8 — Joseph R. Grundy Bristol George Sullivan Gladwyne 

Charles Johnson Norristown Henry W. Watson Langhorne 



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PENNSYLVANIA — Continued. 



DISTRICTS. 



Delegates. 
D— William W. Griest Lancaster 

William H. Keller Lancaster 

10— William Connell Scranton 

Joseph A. Scranton Scranton 

11 — Ambrose West Plymouth 

Louis N. Hammerling Wilkesbarre 

12— Wm. S. Leib Pottsville 

W. J. Whitehouse Pottsville 

IS— Thomas Seidle Reading 

Edward M. Young Allentown 

14— Charles H. Dorflinger 

White Mills 

Charles F. Wright Susquehanna 

15— M. J. Colcord Coudersport 

Clarence L. Peaslee Williamsport 

16— Fred Godcharles Milton 

James Scarlet Danville 

17— T. Frank Bayer Huntingdon 

Jacob H. Stoner Waynesboro 

18— Charles Henry Mullin 

Mt. Holly Springs 

Howard C. Shirk Lebanon 

19 — Jesse L. Hartman Hollidaysburg 

Robert S. Murphy Johnstown 

20— John E. Baker York 

E. H. Markley Gettysburg 

21— Harry Boulton Houtsdale 

Louis Emery, Jr Bradford 

22— A. M. Christley Butler 

Joseph A. McCurdy Greensburg 

23 — Herman M. Kephart Connellsville 

Charles L. Snowden Brownsville 

24— W. S. Moore Beaver 

Thomas W. Phillips New Castle 

25 — Frank Connell Erie 

John C. Sturtevant Conneautville 

26— W. R. Butler East Mauch Chunk 

Harry J. Meyers Bethlehem 

27— Edward A. Carmalt Brookville 

John T. Deemer Kittanning 

28— E. W. Parshall Warren 

Harry Watson Greenville 

29— Charles F. Kirshler Allegheny 

Walter Lyon Allegheny 

30— Robert J. Black McKeesport 

John Dalzell Swissvale 

31— James Francis Burke Pittsburg 

Samuel J. Wainwright, Jr. .Pittsburg 
32— John A. Bell Pittsburg 

Carl Cappel Pittsburg 



Alternates. 

Silas S. Herr Pleasa-nt,,, Grove 

John F. Mentzer Ephraita 

D. B. Atherton ..Scranton 

John R. Williams Scranton 

Thomas W. Haines Wilkesbarre 

Anthony L. Williams Wilkesbarre 

R. H. Koch Pottsville 

J. W. Phillips Mahanoy City 

James L. Foote Slatington 

Joseph N. Shomo Hamburg 

Ed. Carter, Jr Towanda 

B. L. Lyman Tunkhannock 

H. S. Saterlee Lock Haven 

M. H. Stebbins Wellsboro 

George E. Rohrbach Sunbury 

E. G. Sylvara Shamokin 

L. K. Darr Lewisburg 

Samuel I. Spyker Huntingdon 

Charles S. Havard Lebanon 

J. V. W. Reynders Steelton 

J. Elvin Hagey Henrietta 

A. H. King Riddlesburg 

J. H. Mackelduff Hanover 

C. L. Myers York Springs 

David Howells Kane 

George Paton Bradford 

B. W. Brown Derry 

A. W. McCullough Butler 

W. D. Cotterel Waynesburg 

Aaron F. Dickey Somerset 

Wm. S. Cook Beaver Falls 

Joseph A. Herron Monongahela 

Axtell Byles Titusville 

Henry Keppel Corry 

Jacob O. Ryder Matamoras 

J. S. Schoonover Stroudsburg 

John M. Leech Indiana 

S. M. Jack Indiana 

W. P. Nutting Youngsville 

N. P. Belnap Youngsville 

William Morrison Allegheny 

George W. Smith Allegheny 

E. P. Douglass McKeesport 

Harry W. Mcintosh Wilkinsburg 

Albert J. Edwards Pittsburg 

T. D. Thomas Pittsburg 

Miles Bryan McKees Rocks 

J. P. Kerr Pittsburg 



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RHODE ISLAND. 

AT LARGE. 

Delegates. Alternates. 

Andrew J. Carrier Cumberland Frederick W. Easton . , , . . Pawtucket 

Alexander G. Crumb Westerly Harry B. Kane . .Narragausett 

Ezra Dixon Bristol Fred M. Dixon ....Providence 

John Fletcher Providence George H. Holmes .Providence 

DISTRICTS. 

1— Edward S. Rawson Newport Charles L. F. Robinson . . . . Newport 

Joseph E. Fletcher Bristol Charles H. Child Providence 

2— Edward E. Arnold Coventry Fred E. Newell Central Falls 

Philippe Boucher Woonsocket Albert H. Sayles Burrillville 

SOUTH CAROLINA. 

AT LARGE. 

Delegates. Alternates. 

John G. Capers Greenville R. R. Tolbert Abbeville 

L. W. C. Blalock Goldville Robert Smalls Beaufort 

E. H. Deas. . Darlington R. L. Logan ....Ninety-six 

T. L. Grant Charleston R. H. Richardson .Sumter 

DISTRICTS. 

1 — C. M. English Charleston John L. Taylor Charleston 

P. T. Richardson Lincolnville E. B. Burroughs .,,,, Charleston 

2— W. S. Dixson Barnwell Isaac Myers ....Beaufort 

J. M. Jones.. Saluda Robert Perry ...Aiken 

3 — Joseph W. Tolbert Greenwood H. B. Hendricks Pickens 

G. C. Williams Newberry E. B. Churchwell ...... .....Anderson 

4— J. D. Adams Charleston J. A. Brier .........Greenville 

W. T. Smith Greenville R. P. Rodgers ...Spartanburg 

5 — Thomas Hester ..Gaffney I. H. Norris , . . . .Yorkville 

W. E. Boykin Camden J. W. Satterwhite Lancaster 

6 — J. A. Baxter Georgetown E. J. Sawyer Bennettsville 

J. R. Levy Florence James Tharp Kingstree 

7 — A. D. Webster Orangeburg L. A. Hawkins .....Columbia 

W. T. Andrews Sumter Z. T. Walker Sumter 



SOUTH DAKOTA. 

AT LARGE. 

Delegates. Alternates, 

Coe I. Crawford Huron J. C. Anderson , ,„.Plankintoir 

E. L. Senn Oacoma C. J. Lavery Ft. Pierre 

K. O. Strand Howard C. W. Pratt Platte 

A. W. Ewert. Pierre Geo. W. Merry Milbank 

C. H. Dillon Yankton C. J. Alexander Bonesteel 

A. L. Lockhart Clear Lake O. S. Swanson Sioux Falls 

R E. Grimshaw Deadwood F. A. Brown Aberdeen 

P H. O'Neil ...Faulkton Geo. W. Hoffman .....Bangor 



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77 



TENNESSEE. 



Delegates. 

Ji. W. Buttram Huntsvillc 

Newell Sanders Chattanooga 

R. A. Haggard Waynesboro 

K. \V. Essary Lexington 



AT LARGE. 

Alternates. 

B. W. Hooper .......Newport 

John B. Holloway Morrisiown 

W. A. Smith Lafayette 

Charles E. Barbour Memphis 



DISTRICTS. 



1— E. E. Butler Mountain City 

G. McHenderson Rutledge 

2— J. C. Pope Kingston 

J. C. Crawford Marysville 

3— H. Clay Evans Chattanooga 

A. J. Fletcher Cleveland 

4— George T. Renfro Crossville 

John J. Gore Gainesboro 

5— John W. Overall Liberty 

R. Q. Stewart Murf reesboro 

(j— Lee Brock Nashville 

J. T. Gabbert Greenbrier 

7— L'. L. Gregory Mount Pleasant 

Flournoy Rivers (deceased) . .Pulaski 



A. A. Deacons Jonesboro 

J. P. Kivette Tazewell 

E\ M. Webb ...KnoxvilU 

A. B. Eaton Lenoir C'uy 

Joseph E. Brown..... Jasper 

J. M. Taylor Cave 

W. L. Wright Jamestown 

E. C. Goodpasture Livingston 

Herbert Brown Lewisburg 

W. H. McDonnald Haley 

T. W. Johnson Nashville 

Nace Dixon Clarksville 

A. Tidwell Bon Aqua 

X. B. Simms Lawrenceburg 



(Eighth District — half vote each.) 



- C. C. Davis Lexington 

W. L. Morris Buena Vista 

S. E. Murray 

J. F. Dawdy 

0— R. W. Eskeridge Dresden 

J. M. uvins Dyer 

10— H. O. True Memphis 

J. T. Spence Memphis 



Terry Abernathy Selmer 

John W. Robertson Henderson 

N. J. Arnold 

W. M. Bray ; 

A. J. Henning Dyersburg 

George M. Adams Union City 

A P. Prewitt Grand Junction 

W. S. Latta Somerville 



TEXAS. 



AT LARGE. 

Delegates. 

Cecil A. Lyon Sherman 

Charles W. Ogden San Antonio 

Harris Masterson Houston 

C. A. Gray Bonham 



Alternates. 

William Doran Dallas 

J. O. Luby San Diego 

W. C. Aderill Beaumont 

C. C. Baker Hamilton 



DISTRICTS. 



1— W. P. Harris Sulphur Springs 

George M. Guest Paris 

2— E. G. Christian Batson 

D. H. Morris Center 

3— G. W. L. Smith Henderson 

T. B. Meeks Grand Saline 

4— C. A. Burk Van Alstyne 

W. N. Griffin McKinney 



J. J. Dickerson Paris 

L. S. Roach Texarkana 

Joe Williams Port Arthur 

J. H. Howard .'Rusk 

C. H. Houn Athens 

F. N. Hopkins Alba 

R. F. Akridge Wolfe City 

R. H. Crabb Leonard 



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TEXAS — Continued. 



DISTRICTS. 



Delegates. 

5— C. W. Starling Dallas 

A. B. Gardenhire Rockwall 

6— J. Allen Myers Bryan 

Rube Freedman Corsicana 

7 — Francis L. Lee Galveston 

George W. Burkitt Houston 

8— J. M. Sloan Navasota 

John M. Adkins Houston 

9— C. M. Hughes Wharton 

A. F. Loessin Lagrange 

10— T. L. Wren Austin 

G. M. Booth Taylor 

11— Charles A. Boy nton Waco 

Toe E. Williams Hamilton 

12— Charles C. Littleton .... Weather ford 

Sam Davidson Fort Worth 

13— Thos. S. Bugbee Clarendon 

J. E. Lutz Vernon 

14— J. M. Oppenheimer San Antonio 

G. N. Harrison Brownwood 

15— Eugene Notte Seguin 

Ed. Lasaker Falfurrias 

16— J. A. Smith El Paso 

John B. Baker Haskell 



Alternates. 

D. R. Stokes..... Dallas 

S. W. J. Lowery Dallas 

F. T. Coleman Calvert 

J. W. Griswald Teague 

G. W. T. Tarver Crocket 

E. Green Trinity 

E. W. Atkison Navasota 

Spencer Graves ....Richmond 

C. F. Reager Eagle Lake 

B. T. Richardson Bay City 

M. C. Kelly Lockhart 

Wm. Anderson Bastrap 

T. J. Darling '.. Temple 

D. E. Wooley -. Chilton 

A. L. Cole Dublin 

C. S. Taylor Arlington 

W. D. Garwood Amarilla 

W. B. Carson Denton 

Duncan McKay San Antonio 

John Hall Lampasas 

Jeff N. Miller Corpus Christi 

T. J. Martin Spofford 

Ben Van Tuyl Colorado 

R. C. Sanderson Big Springs 



UTAH. 



AT LARGE 

Delegates. 

George Sutherland Salt Lake City 

Reed Smoot Provo City 

Joseph Howell Logan 

C. E. Loose Provo City 

Chas. M. Wilson Park City 

Wm. D. Livingston Manti 



Alternates. 

A. R. Heywood Ogden City 

John C. McClain ....Salt Lake City 

Th omas Sevey Panguitch 

Preston D. Richards Sugar Precinct 

Mrs. Lucy A. Clark Brigham City 

Mrs. Susa Young Gates.. Salt Lake City 



VERMONT. 



AT LARGE 

Delegates. 

William P. Dillingham Waterbury 

Fletcher D. Proctor Proctor 

Frank L. Greene St. Albans 

Allen M. Fletcher Cavendish 



Alternates. 

J. Pinckney H. Adams Fair Haven 

Robert W. McCuen Vergennes 

Rufus B. Godfrey Bennington 

John F. Mead Randolph 



DISTRICTS. 



1— Thad M. Chapman Middlebury 

Roger W. Hulburd Hyde Park 

■2— Nathan G. Williams. ..Bellows Falls 
Gilbert M. Campbell . .Lyndonville 



Robert A. Lawrence Rutland 

William J. Van Patten Burlington 

Gilbert F. Davis Windsor 

Charles D. Mather Montpelier 



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VIRGINIA. 

AT LARGE. 

Delegates. Alternates. 

C. B. Slemp Big Stone Gap John B. Kimberly Old Point 

Alvah H. Martin Portsmouth Henry Bowen Pounding Mill 

S. Brown Allen Staunton O. D. Oakley Salem 

S. G. Promt Floyd B. B. Bowman Woodstock 

DISTRICTS. 

1— Clarence G. Smithers.. .Cape Charles B. T. Upton Urbana 

W. T. Hopkins Newport News James Rowbottom Newport .News 

2 — D. L. Groner Norfolk Henry Bowden Norfolk 

R. P. Bunting Portsmouth P. J. Riley Portsmouth 

3 — C. Ridgeway Moore Richmond Royal E. Cabell Richmond 

M. J. Enright Richmond Thomas H. Smith Manchester 

4— H. C. Willson Petersburg H. Alfred Clarksville 

H. C. Green Lawrenceville A. W. Harris Petersburg 

6— J. R. Wilson Danville W. B. Brown 

H. T. Adams George R. Rison Danville 

6— R. I. Roop Christiansburg James R. Guy, Jr Bedford City 

R. H. Angell Roanoke A. B. Hanmer Keysville 

7— John Acker Edom W. T. Miller Shenandoah 

C. M. Gibbens Winchester R. N. Flannagan Charlottesville 

8 — Joseph L. Crupper Alexandria A. B. Casselman Arlington 

Samuel Diener Culpeper W. H. Silcott Middlebury 

9 — J. W. McGavock Max Meadows J. H. Catron Clinchport 

Joseph S. Gillespie Tazewell George W. Gilmer Lebanon 

10— R. A. Fulwiler Staunton E. J. McCulloch Buchanan 

William Jennings Lexington Emmett D. Gregory Dillwyn 

WASHINGTON. 

AT LARGE. 

Delegates. Alternates. 

R. A. Ballinger Seattle F. B. Hubbard Chehalis 

R. L. McCormick Tacoma J. J. Smith Seattle 

Emerson Hammer Sedro-Woolley M. Pietrzycki Dayton 

Frank T. Post...*. Spokane A. L. Rogers Waterville 

DISTRICTS. 

1 — Robert Moran Rosario Patrick Halloran Edison 

W. J. Rucker Everett F. K. Baker Everett 

2— A. L. Miller Vancouver F. H. Collins Goldendale 

C. S. Eaton Olympia H. H. Bugge Port Williams 

3— J. C. McCauley Ellensburg Thomas Bollman Cashmere 

David T. Ham Spokane D. L. Bradley Republic 

WEST VIRGINIA. 

AT LARGE. 

Delegates. Alternates. 

George A. Laughlin Wheeling J. McHenry Jones Institute 

George F. Teter Phillipi W. L. Armstrong Sistersville 

Charles W. Dillon Fayetteville T. L. Norris Wheeling 

Isaac T. Mann Bramwell A. J. Saulsberry Webster Springs 



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OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



WEST VIRGINIA — Continued. 



Delegates. 

1— John G. Hoffman Wheeling 

J. T. Koen Mannington 

2 — E. M.. Grant Morgantown 

R. R. McMahon Harpers Ferry 

3 — William S. Edwards Char.eston 

Charles C. Beury Claremont 

4- -George W. Curtin 

John H. Liniger 

5— W. F. Hite Huntington 

T. E. Houston Welch 



DISTRICTS 



Alternates. 

C. E. Hutchinson Cameron 

John W. Carpenter Salem 

J. P. Hawvermale Berkley Springs 

\V. J. Thompson Thomas 

C. h. Mitchell Institute 

Chester A. Rabert Hinton 

J. E. Ewing 

J. Mentor Caldwell 

P. H. Napier Wayn^ 

A. L. Calhoun Welch 



Delegates. 

William Charles Brumder.... Milwaukee 

Henry Allen Cooper Racine 

Atley Peterson Soldiers Grove 

Isaac Stephenson Marinttte 



WISCONSIN 

AT LARGE. 



Alternates, . 

john M. Beffel Milwaukee 

j. P. JJousman De Pere 

Irvine L. Lenroot Superior 

Phil. Allen Mineral Point 



DISTRICTS. 



1— H. C. Martin Darlington 

Perry C. Wilder Evansvwle 

2— Alfred T. Rogers Madison 

Horace E. Stedman Berlin 

3— Julius T. Dithmar Eiroy 

Duncan McGregor Platteville 

4— Wil.iam H. J. Kieckhefer. Milwaukee 

Fred C. Lorenz Milwaukee 

5— William R. Knell Milwaukee 

Henry Lockney , Waukesha 

6 — Harry Krumrey Plymouth 

Wi.liam Mauthe Fond du Lac 

7— Walter L. Houser Mondovi 

Edwin M. Wing La Crosse 

8— George B. Nelson Stevens Point 

Thomas E. Torrison Manitowoc 

9— Samuel H. Cady Green Bay 

Bernard C. Wolter Appleton 

10 — Walter Alexander Wausau 

Charles D. Fenelon Phi. lips 

11— Samuel J. Bradford Hudson 

John T. Murphy Superior 



Burr Sprague Brodhead 

S. C. Goff Eikhorn' 

L. A. Wright Columbus 

Wm. F. Whyte Watertown 

James A. Stone Reedsburg 

W. E. Williams Dodgeville 

J. L. Merville West Allis 

C. A. A. McGee Milwaukee 

Richard White Milwaukee 

Henry F. Cochems Milwaukee 

A. P. Croghan Cascade 

K. P. Hubbard Ripon 

Charles McArthur Eau Claire 

Herman L. Ekern Whitehall 

H. J. Severson Iola 

Florian Lampert Oshkosh 

George Beyer Oconto 

George M. Wing Kewaunee 

Theodore W. Brazeau Grand Rapids 

E. J. Onsted Wittenberg 

Henry S. Comstock Cumberland 

Lorenzo N. Clausen Washburn 



Delegates. 

11. S. Ridgely Basin 

Francis E. Warren Cheyenne 

Clarence D. Clark Evanston 

Frank W. Mondell New Castle 

Bryant B. Brooks Casper 

W. G. Birkhaeuser Sheridan 



WYOMING, 

AT LARGE. 



Alternates. 

Charles E. Winter... Grand Encampment 

W. F. Hamilton Douglas 

W. L. Gordon Sundance 

A. D. Hoskins Evanston 

F W S*-oie Cheyenne 

Patrick Sullivan Casper 



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ALASKA. 
Delegates. Alternates. 

L. P. Shackleford Juneau T. R. Lyons Juneau 

■George A. Shea Nome E. E. Ailes Nome 

ARIZONA. 

Delegates. Alternates. 

Richard E. Sloan Prescott vvm. M. Griffith.' Tucson 

L. W. Powell Bisbee Fred S. Breen Flagstaff 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
Delegates. Alternates. 

Henry H. Flather Washington William Tindall Washington 

Richard R. Horner Washington Daniel Murray Washington 

HAWAII. 
Delegates. Alternates. 

Jonah K. Kalanianaole Honolulu Robert W. Breckons Honolulu 

Alexander G. M. Robertson Honolulu John M. Dowsat Honolulu 

NEW MEXICO. 
Delegates. Alternates. 

Holm O. Bursum Socorro W. H. Newcomb Silver City 

Charles A. Spiess Las Vegas Faustin Gallegos Clayton 

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 
Delegates. Alternates. 

Ti-omas L. Hartigan Manila Chas. A. Reynolds Manila 

\masa S. Crossfield Manila W. E. Norris Manila 

PORTO RICO. 

Delegates. Alternates. 

Francisco P. Quinones San German Juse Gomez Brioso San Juan 

Robert H. Todd San Juan Lucas P. Valdivieso Ponce 

Mr. Fulton. — I move the adoption of the report. 
The report was agreed to. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT 
ORGANIZATION. 

The Temporary Chairman. — The Committee on Permanent Organ- 
ization is ready to report. 

Mr. Charles F. Brooker, of Connecticut, chairman of the Committee 
on Permanent Organization, submitted the following report, which was 
read: 



82 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE ' ' 

"THE COLISEUM, CHICAGO, ILL., 

June 16, 1908. 

"The Committee on Permanent Organization met at Room 1614 Auditorium 
Annex, and organized by the choice of — 

Charles F. Brooker, of Connecticut, as chairman. 

George H. Dodson, of Oklahoma, as secretary. 

On motion:— 

Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, was recommended as Permanent 
Chairman of the Convention, and the chairman was directed to present his name to- 
the Convention. 

On motion: — 

The temporary officers of the Convention as organized this morning other than 
the chairman, to-wit: 

General Secretary John R. Malloy, Columbus, Ohio, 

Chief Assistant Secretary Lafayette B. Gleason, Delhi, New York, 

Sergeant-at-Arms William F. Stone, Baltimore, Maryland, 

Chief Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms Ed. P. Thayer, Greenfield, Indiana, 

Parliamentarian Asher C. Hinds, Portland, Maine, 

Official Reporter M. W. Blumenberg, Washington, D. C., 

Chief of Doorkeepers Stephen R. Mason, Baltimore, Maryland, 

Chaplains Bishop P. J. Muldoon, Chicago, Illinois, 

Rev. William O. Waters, Chicago, Illinois, 
Rev. Tobias Schanfarber, Chicago, 111., 
Rev. John Wesley Hill, New York City, 

Assistant Secretaries Charles Brooks Smith, Parkersburg, W. Va., 

Ernest Walker Smith, Hartford, Connecticut, 
Philip M. Hoefele, St. Louis, Mo., 
M. J. Tobin, Vinton, Iowa, 
: Charles M. Harger, Abilene, Kansas, 
Allen Hollis, Concord, New Hampshire, 

Reading Clerks Thomas W. Williamson, Edwardsville, 111., 

Albert Berg, Beaudette, Minnesota, 
George A. Wilson, Des Moines, Iowa, 
W. J. Seitz, West Liberty, Kentucky, 

Tally Clerks Roy M. Watkins, Grand Rapids, Mich., 

Clyde W. Miller, Osage City, Kansas, 
Frank R. Bentley, Baraboo, Wisconsin, 
W. A. Steele, Van Buren, Arkansas, 

Messenger to the Chairman Empsirdell Stone, Indianapolis, Ind., 

Messenger to the Secretary John H. Jackson, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

were recommended as the Permanent Officers of the Convention, with the Honorary 
Vice Presidents, as named by the various States, and the chairman was directed to 
present their names to the Convention. 
Voted to adjourn. 

Attest: 

CHAS. F. BROOKER, Chairman. 
GEO. H. DODSON, Secretary." 

Mr. Brooker. — I move the adoption of the report. 
The report was agreed to. 




HON. HENRY CABOT LODGE, of Massachusetts, 

Permanent Chairman of the Convention. J 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTIOX. 83 

COMMITTEE TO ESCORT THE PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. 

The Temporary Chairman. — The Chair requests General Stewart 
L. Woodford, of New York, and Governor Charles S. Deneen, of Illi- 
nois, to escort the Permanent Chairman of this Convention to the plat- 
form. 

The committee appointed by the Temporary Chairman escorted the 
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, to the platform. 

The Temporary Chairman. — Gentlemen of the Convention, it af- 
fords me the greatest pleasure to present to you your choice for Per- 
manent Chairman, the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts. 
(Applause.) 

ADDRESS OF THE PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. 

The Permanent Chairman. — (Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, Massachu- 
setts.) — Gentlemen of the Convention, I thank you most sincerely for 
the great honor you have done me in choosing me to preside over your 
deliberations. For it is a great honor to be the presiding officer of a 
Republican National Convention. I can conceive of Conventions, I have 
indeed heard of Conventions where the honor of such a post as that 
now occupied by me is dubious and where, if excitement is present, 
pleasure is conspicuous by its absence. But to be the presiding officer of 
.a Republican Convention is ever a high distinction to which no man can 
"be insensible. Gentlement of the Convention, again I thank yon. 

I shall not delay or detain you with many words. Your resolutions 
will set forth the principles of the party and declare the policies upon 
which we shall ask for the support of the people of the United States. 
With fullness and with eloquence, your temporary chairman has already 
reviewed the history of the party, has given you account of what has 
heen done, and has set forth what we hope and mean to do. My duty is 
merely to aid you, so far as I can, in the orderly and prompt transac- 
tion of the business which has brought us together. That business is 
momentous — nothing less than to name here the two men who, speaking 
with the simplicity of truth, will be the next President and Vice Presi- 
dent of the United States. (Applause.) In order to win .for them, and 
for our party, an assured as well as a merited victory, we must defeat 
our opponents whose exclusion from power is desired by the country 
and deserved by them. (Applause.) 

No political party in modern times can show such a record of achieve- 
ment during the last fifty years as the Republican party. (Applause.) 
Upon that record we can stand and challenge all comers to the lists. 
But it is well to remember that the test we have to meet is much less 
severe. This is a comparative world. We do not go forth to contest 
the great prize with an ideal party which we sometimes see beautifully 



84 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

depicted by persons of self-confessed superiority and chronic discontent. 
The glittering abstraction which they present never yet existed on sea 
or land. It gleams upon us is printers' ink but it has neither substance 
nor organization nor candidates, for organizations and candidates must 
be taken from the ranks of men and cannot be the floating phantoms of 
an uneasy dream. 

The American people must choose next November between us and- 
the Democratic party. With the Democratic party, and with that alone,, 
must the comparison be made. We differ from that party in some im- 
portant particulars. We both, it is true, have a past and a history, but 
we treat those possessions very differently. They wish to keep their past 
a profound secret. (Applause.) We seek by all means to publish ours 
to the world. If we refer to their history they charge us with calumny. 
We regard ours, truthful and undiscorted, as our greatest glory. (Ap- 
plause.) To the youth of the country they say — "Judge us solely by our 
undiscovered future." (Laughter and applause.) We say — "Read our 
record, judge us by our past and our present and from these, learn what 
we are, what we have been, and what we mean to be." (Applause.) 

Recall the cries which have sounded from the lips of these two 
parties during the last half century. On the one side "Slavery ; secession ; 
repudiation of the public debt; fiat money; free trade; free silver; the 
overthrow of the courts and government ownership." On the Republi- 
can side "Free soil; free men; the Union; the payment of the debt; hon- 
est money : protection to American industry ; the gold standard ; the 
maintenance of law. of order and of the courts, and the government regu- 
lation of great corporations." (Applause.) The old shibboleths of the 
Democrats are today the epitaphs of policies which are dead and damned. 
(Applause.) They serve only to remind us of dangers escaped or to 
warn us of perils to be shunned. The battle cries of the Republicans 
have been the watchwords of great causes. They tell of victories won 
and triumphs tasted; they are embodied in the laws and mark the step- 
ping stones by which the Republic has risen to ever greater heights of 
power and prosperity. 

As we thus call up the past, and the echoes of these old conflicts 
again sound in our ears and touch the chords of memory, one great fact 
stands forth clear and shining. The Republican party has never failed 
except when it has faltered. Our long career of victory, so rarely brok- 
en, has been due to our meeting boldly each question as it arose, to our 
facing every danger, as it crossed our path, with entire courage, fearless 
of consequences and determined only to be true to the principles which 
brought the party into existence and to the spirit which has inspired it 
from its birth. 

We faced secession rather than assent to the extension of slavery. 
Rather than submit to secession we took up the dread burden of civil 
war. But a few years ago we permitted thousands of Republicans to leave 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 85 

us, thereby imperiling our political power rather than abandon the gold 
standard and plunge the country into disaster and dishonor. 

In these latest years, as in the most remote, we have been true to 
our traditions. In the process of development a point was reached 
where the country was confronted by a situation more perilous than 
any it had ever faced except in the Civil War and we Republicans were, 
therefore, obliged to deal with problems of the most complex and 
difficult character. To our honor, be it said, we have not shrunk from 
the task. Much has been done — much, no doubt, still remains to do — 
but the great underlying principles have been established and upon them 
we can build, as necessity arises, carefully and deliberately. 

I have spoken of the seriousness of the situation with which the 
country was confronted. Its gravity can hardly be overestimated. It 
grew out of conditions and was the result of forces beyond the control 
of men. Science and invention, the two great factors in this situation, 
have not only altered radically human environment and our relations 
to nature, but, in their application, they have revolutionized economic 
conditions. These changed economic conditions have, in turn, affected 
profoundly society and politics. They have led, among other things, to 
combinations of capital and labor on a scale and with a power never 
before witnessed. They have opened the way to accumulations of wealth 
in masses beyond the dreams of avarice and never before contemplated 
by men. 

The social and political problems thus created are wholly new. It 
is a fallacy to suppose that because the elements are old the problem 
itself must, therefore, differ only in degree from those which have gone 
before. The elements may be old, but the problem presented by a change 
in the proportion of the elements may be, and, in this case, is entirely 
new. 

Great individual fortunes and rich men are, it is true, as old as 
recorded history. Nearly two thousand years ago the tax farmers of 
Rome formed a "Trust" for their own profit and protection; the Eng- 
lish people, three centuries ago, revolted against the patents and monop- 
olies granted by Elizabeth and James to their courtiers, and monopolists, 
forestallers and speculators in the necessities of life were a curse in 
our Revolution and bitterly denounced by Washington. Yet, it is none 
the less true that the same things today present questions different in 
kind as well as in degree from their predecessors. 

It is the huge size of private fortunes, the vast extent and power 
of modern combinations of capital made possible by present conditions, 
which have brought upon us, in these later years, problems portentous 
in their possibilities, and threatening not only our social and political 
welfare, but even our personal freedom if they are not boldly met and" 
wisely solved. (Applause.) 

The great body of the American people, neither very rich nor very 



86 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

poor, the honest, the thrifty, the hardworking, the men and women who 
earn and save, have no base envy, no fanatic hatred of wealth, whether 
individual or corporate, if it has been honestly gained and is wisely and 
generously employed with a sense of responsibility to the public. But 
this great body of our people, by habit and instinct alike, wisely conser- 
vative, these people, who are the bone and sinew of our country and 
upon whom its fortunes and its safety rest, began to observe, with deep 
alarm, the recent manifestations of the new economic conditions. More 
and more they came to believe that these vast fortunes and these huge 
combinations of capital were formed and built up by tortuous and dis- 
honest means and through a cynical disregard of the very laws which 
the mass of the people were compelled to obey. They began to fear 
that political power was being reft from their hands and put into the 
possession of the money holders, that their dearest rights' were in dan- 
ger, that their hopes of success and advancement were cut off by busi- 
ness systems which they could not understand, but by which the individual 
was sacrificed and held down. 

To those who looked beneath the surface an ominous unrest was 
apparent. The violent counsels of violent men, who aimed at the 
destruction of property and the overthrow of law, began to be heard 
and hearkened to. The great order-loving, industrious masses of the 
American people turned away from these advocates of violence, but at 
the same time demanded that their Government should give them, in 
lawful and reasonable ways, the protection to which they were entitled, 
against the dangers they justly apprehended. (Applause.) 

The great duty of fulfilling these righteous demands like all the 
great public services of the last half century, w'as imposed upon the 
Republican party, and they have not flinched from the burden. Under 
the lead of the President, the Republican party has grappled with the 
new problems born of the new conditions. It has been no light task. 
Dangerous extremes threatened on either hand. On the one side were 
the radicals of reaction, who resisted any change at all; on the other 
side were the radicals of destruction who wished to change everything. 
These two forms of radicalism are as far apart at the outset as the poles, 
but, when carried out, they lead alike to revolution. Between these two 
extremes the Republican President and the Republican Congress were com- 
pelled to steer and while they advanced steadily, soberly and effectively, 
they were obliged to repel the radical assaults on either hand. 

Yet, notwithstanding all these difficulties, much has been accomplished. 
The response of the people to the policies urged by the President has 
been so emphatic that it has been made clear, once for all, that the 
Government of the United States is never to be dominated by money 
and financial interests and that the political party which permits itself 
to be ruled by them is thereby doomed to defeat. (Applause.) 

The policy of the Republican party, in dealing with these new and 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 87 

formidable questions which have taken concrete form in enormous com- 
binations of capital and in great public service corporations, has been 
formulated and determined. That policy is to use government regula- 
tion and supervision for the control of corporations and combinations 
so th'at these great and necessary instruments of commerce and business 
may be preserved as useful servants and not destroyed because they 
threaten to become dangerous masters. 

This policy is the absolute opposite of government ownership and 
all like measures, advocated by our opponents, which tend directly to 
socialism and to all its attendant miseries and evils. It is in pursuance 
of this policy, shaped and settled, during the past few years, that old 
laws have been enforced and new ones enacted. 

Nothing is more destructive to the respect for law — the chief bulwark 
of civilized society — than to place laws upon the statute book in order 
merely to still public clamor and satisfy the people, but which it is 
never intended to enforce. The worst laws imaginable are those which 
are allowed to rust unused, because if enforced they might interfere with 
vested abuses or curb the rich and powerful. (Applause.) 

The President has enforced the laws as he found them on the 
statute book. (Applause.) For this performance of his sworn duty 
he has been bitterly attacked. It was to be expected. Vested abuses 
and profitable wrongs cry out loudly when their entrenchments are car- 
ried, and some one is sure to be hurt when the bayonets of the law 
are pushed home. (Applause.) In the great American electorate money 
has few votes, but it can command many voices and cause many birds 
to sing. (Applause.) The result is that the President is the best abused 
and the most popular man in the United States today. (Great applause.) 
He has been more abused than any president except Washington, Lincoln 
and Grant. He possesses the love and confidence of the American people 
to a degree never equaled except by Lincoln and Washington. (Ap- 
plause.) May it not be said, in sober truth, that the fearless performance 
of a sworn duty it not without its exceeding great reward? 

But the work has not ceased with the enforcement of existing laws. 
A Republican Congress and a Republican President have placed new laws 
upon the statute books, designed to carry out the Republican policy of 
government regulation in a safe, reasonable and effective manner. The 
Elkins law, aimed at preferential rebates, which have been the curse to our 
transportation and our business ; the railroad rate law which made the 
supervision of railroads more effective, and the pure food law which has 
been, in the highest degree, beneficent to the masses of our people, are all 
monuments of the policy and the labors of the Republican party. 
(Applause.) 

The President, who has led his party and the people in this great 
work, retires, by his own determination, from his high office on the 
fourth of March next. His refusal of a renomination, dictated by the 



88 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

loftiest motives and by a noble loyalty to American traditions, is final 
and irrevocable. (Applause.) Any one, who attempts to use his name 
as a candidate for the presidency impugns both his - sincerity and his 
good faith, two of the President's greatest and most conspicuous qual- 
ities, upon which no shadow has ever been cast. (Applause.) That 
man is no friend to Theodore Roosevelt and does not cherish his name 
and fame, who now, from any motive, seeks to urge him as a candidate 
for the great office which he has finally declined. (Applause.) The 
President has refused what his countrymen would gladly have given 
him ; he says what he means and means what he says, and his party and 
bis country will respect his wishes as they honor his high character and 
great public service. (Applause.) 

But, although the President retires, he leaves his policies behind 
him. To those policies the Republican party stands pledged. We must 
carry them out as we have begun, regardless alike of the radicals of 
reaction and the radicals of revolution. We must hold fast to that 
which is good while we make the advances which the times demand. 
(Applause.) 

We ask for the confidence and support of the American people be- 
cause we have met the problems of the day and have tried patiently to 
solve them. We appeal for votes and for the power they confer because 
we uphold the President's policies and shall continue to sustain them. 
We make our appeal with confidence because we have a well defined 
policy and are not, like our opponents, fumbling in the dark to find some 
opinion on something. (Applause.) 

We believe in the maintenance of law and order and in the sup- 
port of the courts in all their rights and dignity. (Applause). We be- 
lieve in equal rights for all men and are opposed to special privileges 
for any man, or 'any class of men, high or low, rich or poor. (Applause.) 
We, who established the gold standard, are pledged to the cause of 
sound finance. (Applause.) We stand for protection to American in- 
dustry and American labor, (Applause) and we will resist all the 
assaults of free trade under whatever name it comes disguised. We will 
see to the defence of the country. We mean to have a Navy worthy of 
the American name. (Applause.) We seek peace and friendship with all 
the nations, but alliance with none. Yet we have no intention of being 
a "hermit nation." The great services of the President to the world's 
peace will be continued by the party which he has led. We are a party 
fit to rule and govern, to legislate and administer, and not a fortuitous 
collecHcn of atoms whose only form of thought or motion is to oppose. 
(Applause.) Above all, we are true to our traditions and to our past; 
true now, as we were in the days of Lincoln. (Applause.) 

In this spirit we must prevail; by this sign we must conquer. 
(Applause.) 




JOHN R. MALLOY, of Ohio, 
General Secretary of the Convention. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 89" 

JOHN ADE, OF INDIANA. 

Mr. Albert J. Beveridge, of Indiana. — Mr. Chairman, the Indiana 
delegation, recognizing the services of the veteran Republicans who 
fought the early battles of the party, greets her honored citizen, John 
Ade, now eighty years old, who has voted for every Republican can- 
didate for President, beginning with Fremont, and moves that he be 
invited to a seat on the platform. 

The motion was agreed to. 

W. H. TRIPP.. OF WISCONSIN. 

Mr. 1 .). P>. Atherton, of Pennsylvania. — Mr. Chairman, Mr. W. 
H. Tripp, of Jeansville, Wisconsin, 88 years of age, and a delegate to 
the National Convention held in this city in 1860, which placed in nomi- 
nation Abraham Lincoln, is present here today. I move that official note 
of this fact be recorded on the minutes of this Convention, and that 
he be given a seat on the platform during the remainder of this session. 

The motion was agreed to. 

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Chair will inquire whether the 
Committee on Rules and Order of Business, whose report is the next busi- 
ness of the Convention, is ready to report. (A pause.) If not, the Chair- 
will suggest that while we are waiting for the report of that committee if 
there is no objection, the names of the National Committeemen and the 
Honorary Vice Presidents of the Convention can be sent to the desk or~ 
announced from the floor. 

The Republican National Committee as finally made up. is as follows :: 

State or Territory. 

Alabama P. D. BARKER. 

Arkansas POWELL CLAYTON. 

California GEORGE A. KNIGHT. 

Colorado CHARLES E. CAVENDER. 

Connecticut CHARLES F. BROOKER. 

Delaware T. COLEMAN du PONT. 

Florida JAMES. N. COOMBS. 

Georgia HENRY BLUN, JR. 

Idaho W. E. BORAH. 

Illinois FRANK O. LOWDEN. 

Indiana HARRY S. NEW. 

Towa ERNEST E. HART. 

Kansas D. W. MULVANE. 

Kentucky A. R. BURNAM. 

Louisiana PEARL WIGHT 

Maine JOHN F. HILL. 

Maryland WILLIAM P. JACKSON. 



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Massachusetts W. MURRAY CRANE. 

Michigan JOHN W. BLODGETT. ■ 

Minnesota FRANK B. KELLOGG. 

Mississippi L. B. MOSELEY. 

Missouri CHARLES NAGEL. 

Montana THOMAS C. MARSHALL. 

Nebraska VICTOR ROSEWATER. 

Nevada P. L. FLANIGAN. 

New Hampshire F. W. ESTABROOK. 

New Jersey FRANKLIN MURPHY. 

New York WILLIAM L. WARD. 

North Carolina E. C. DUNCAN. 

North Dakota JAMES KENNEDY. 

Ohio A. I. VORYS. 

Oklahoma C. M. CADE. 

Oregon R. E. WILLIAMS. 

Pennsylvania BOIES PENROSE. \ 

Rhode Island CHARLES R. BRAYTON. 

South Carolina JOHN G. CAPERS. 

South Dakota THOMAS THORSON. 

Tennessee NATHAN W. HALE. 

Texas CECIL A. LYON. 

Utah C. E. LOOSE. 

Vermont JAMES W. RBOCK. 

Virginia ALVAH H MARTIN. 

Washington R. L. M'CORMICK. 

West Virginia N. B. SCOTT. 

Wisconsin ALFRED T. ROGERS. 

Wyoming GEORGE E. PEXTON. 

Alaska L. P. SHACKLEFORD. 

Arizona W. S. STURGIS. 

District of Columbia SIDNEY BIEBER. 

Hawaii A. G. M. ROBERTSON. 

New Mexico SOLOMON LUNA. 

Philippine Islands HENRY D. M'COY. 

Porto Rico R. H. TODD. 



HONORARY VICE PRESIDENTS. 

The list of Honorary Vice Presidents is as follows : 

State or Territory. 

Alabama GEO. W. PARSONS. 

Arkansas CHARLES N. RIX. 

California GEO. M. REED. 

Colorado WILLIAM LENNOX. 

Connecticut TIMOTHY E. HOPKINS. 

Delaware HARRY A. RICHARDSON. 

Florida W. H. NORTHROP. 

Georgia B. W. S. DANIELS. 

Idaho W. E. BORAH. 

Illinois FRED A. BUSSE. 

Indiana W. R. M'KEEN. 

Iowa ". JAMES R. GUTHRIE. 

Kansas H. H. WHEELER. 



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Kentucky R. VV. HUNTER. 

Louisiana (NOT REPORTED.) 

Maine THOMAS P. SHAW. 

Maryland JOHN P. T. MATHIAS. 

Massachusetts W. H. BROOKS. 

Michigan JAMES MACNAUGHTON. 

Minnesota \V. B. WEBSTER. 

Mississippi PARKE DANIELS. 

Missouri WELLa II. BLODGETT. 

Montana F. N. MALONE. 

Nebraska J. C. GAMMIL. 

Nevada R. W. PARRY. 

New Hampshire SETH M. RICHARDS. 

New Jersey LESLIE W. WARD. 

New York CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW. 

North Carolina THOMAS S. ROLLINS. 

North Dakota I LEE PETTIBONE. 

Ohio ANDREW L. HARRIS. 

Oklahoma JOHN M. KIRKWOOD. 

Oregon GEORGE H. WILLIAMS. 

Pennsylvania JESSE L. HARTMAN. 

Rhode Island EDWARD S. RAWSON. 

South Carolina J. R. LEVY. 

South Dakota P. H. O'NEIL. 

Tennessee H. CLAY EVANS. 

Texas CHARLES A. BOYNTON. 

Utah JOSEPH HOWELL. 

Vermont FLETCHER D. PROCTOR. 

Virginia JOHN ACKER. 

Washington '.. JOHN C. M'CAULEY. 

West Virginia GEORGE W. CURTIN. 

Wisconsin ISAAC STEPHENSON. 

Wyoming FRANK W. MONDELL. 

Alaska CABELL WHITEHEAD. 

Arizona L. W. POWELL. 

District of Columbia GEORGE TRUESDELL. 

Hawaii JOHN C. LANE. 

New Mexico T. B. CATRON. 

Philippine Islands THOMAS L. HARTIGAN. 

Porto Rico F. P. OUINONES. 



VACANCIES ON REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE. 

Mr. Powell Clayton, of Arkansas. — I offer the resolution 1 send 
to the desk. 

The resolution was read as follows : 

"Resolved, That the Republican National Committee be, and it is hereby em- 
powered to fill all vacancies in its membership. 

Mr. Chase S. Osborn, of Michigan. — Mr. Chairman, would it not be 
better and more fair to have the State Central Committee of each State 
fill any vacancy that may occur? 



•92 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

Tfce Permanent Chairman. — The resolution of the gentleman from 
Arkansas is open to amendment. 

Mr. Osborn. — I move an amendment to that effect — that the State 
Central Committee of each State shall have power to fill any vacancy 
from that State which may occur upon the Republican National Com- 
mittee. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The gentleman from Michigan moves 
to amend the resolution offered by the gentleman from Arkansas so as to 
read as follows : 

Resolved, That the State Central Committee of each State be. and it is hereby 
empowered to fill any vacancy that may occur in the membership from that State 
upon the Republican National Committee." 

Mr. Clayton. — • I accept the amendment. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The gentleman from Arkansas ac- 
cepts the amendment of the gentleman from Michigan. The question is 
on agreeing to the resolution as amended. 

The resolution as amended was agreed to. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ORDER OF 

BUSINESS. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Chair recognizes Senator War- 
ren, of Wyoming, chairman of the Committee on Rules and Order of 
Business. 

Mr Francis E. Warren, of Wyoming. — Mr. Chairman, I am di- 
rected by your Committee on Rules and Order of Business to present 
its report and ask for its consideration by the Convention. I am di- 
rected to say that in the deliberations of your committee the rules 
adopted four years ago were adopted by the committee with some minor 
changes and amendments which are: 

1. In Rule 1, the names "Arizona," "New Mexico" and "Hawaii" 
.are omitted, and they are grouped together under the heading of terri- 
tories and are allowed six delegates each. The District of Columbia, 
Porto Rico, the Philippines and Alaska are named and are allowed two 
votes each. 

2. The word "Hawaii" wherever it appears throughout the rules 
is eliminated so that it may conform to rule 1. 

Rule 12 has been amended so that the mode of selecting delegates 

shall be left to and prescribed by the National Committee; and under 

the order of business there is inserted a heading for the report of the 

Comirit'e? on Rvl s an:l Ord?r of Business, which seems to have been 

-omitted four years ago. 

I am instructed by that committee, Mr. Chairman, to say that there 
will be a minority report presented by Delegate James Francis Burke, 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 93 

a member "of that committee, who was selected by the minority to ex- 
press their views to the convention. 

I ask that the rules may be read by the Reading Clerk. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Clerk will read the rules report- 
ed by the committee. 

The Reading Clerk read as follows: 

The Committee on Rules and Order of Business has. attended to the duties a-,- 
signe"d it, and respectfully reports the following rules: 

I. — Hereafter the Convention shall consist of a number of delegates from each 
State, equal to double the number of each Senator and Representative in Congress; 
six delegates each from the Territories; two from Alaska, two from the District of 
Columbia, two from Porto Rico, and two from the Philippine Islands. 

II.— The rules of the House of Representatives of the Sixtieth Congress shall be 
the rules of the Convention, so far as they are applicable and not inconsistent with 
the following rules. 

III. — When the previous question shall be demanded by a majority of the delegates 
from any State, and the demand is seconded by two or more States, and the call is 
sustained by a majority of the Convention, the question shall then be proceeded whh 
and disposed of according to the rules of the House of Representatives in similar 
cases. 

IV. — A motion to suspend the rules shall be in order only when made by au- 
thority of a majority of the delegates from any State, and seconded by a majority 
of the delegates from not less than two other states. 

V. — It shall be in order to lay on the table a proposed amendment to a pending 
measure, and such motion, if adopted, shall not carry with it, or prejudice such 
measure. 

VI. — Upon all subjects before the Convention the States shall be called in alpha- 
betical order and next the Territories, Alaska, the District of Columbia, Porto Rico 
and the Philippine Islands. 

VII. — The report of the Committee on Credentials shall be disposed of before 
the report of the Committee on Resolutions is acted upon, and the report of the 
Committee on Resolutions shall be disposed of before the Convention proceeds to the 
nomination of a candidate for President and Vice-President. 

VIII. — When a majority of the delegates of any two States shall demand that 
a vote be recorded, the same shall be taken by States, Territories, Alaska, the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, the Secretary calling tne 
roll of the States and Territories, Alaska, the District of Columbia, Porto Rico and 
the Philippine Islands, in the order heretofore established. 

IX. — In making the nomination for President and Vice-President in no case shall 
the calling of the roll be dispensed with. When it appears at the close of any roll 
call that any candidate has received the majority of votes to which the Convention is 
entitled, the President of the Convention shall announce the question to be: "Shall 
the nomination of the candidate be made unanimous?" If no candidate shall have re- 
ceived such majority, the Chair shall direct the vote to be taken again, which shall 
be repeated until some candidate shall have received a majority of the votes; and 
when any State has announced its vote it shall so stand, unless in case of numeri- 
cal error. 

X. — In the record of the votes, the vote of each State, Territory, Alaska, the 
District of Columbia, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands shall be announced by 
the Chairman, and in case the vote of any State, Territory, Alaska, the District 
of Columbia, Porto Rico or the Philippine Islands shall be divided, the Chairman 
shall announce the number of votes for any candidate, or for or against any proposi- 
tion but if exception is taken by any delegate to the correctness of such announce- 
ment by the chairman of his delegation, the President of the Convention shall direct 



•* 94 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

*. ' the roll of members of such delegation to be called, and the result shall be recorded 

^ in accordance with the vote individually given. , 

XI. — No member shall speak more than once upon the same question, nor longer 

than five minutes, unless by leave of the Convention, except in the presentation of the 

names of candidates. 

XII. — A Republican National Committee shall be appointed, to consist of one 
member from each State, Territory, Alaska, the District of Columbia, Porto Rico, and. 
the Philippine Islands. The roll shall be called and the delegation from each State, 
Territory:, Alaska, the District of Columbia, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, 
shall name, through its chairman, a person who shall act as member of said Commit- 
tee. Such Committee shall issue the call for the meeting of the National Convention 
within sixty days at least before the time fixed for said meeting and delegates to the 
National Convention shall be chosen in such manner as the National Committee shall 
provide. An alternate delegate for each delegate to the National Convention, to act in 
case of the absence of the delegate, shall be elected in the same manner and at the 
same time as a delegate is elected. Delegates-at-large for each state and their alternates- 
shall be elected by state conventions in their respective states. Twenty days before 
the day set for the meeting of the National Convention the credentials of each 
delegate and alternate shall be forwarded to the Secretary of the National Committee 
for use in making up the temporary roll of the Convention. Notices of contests shalt 
be forwarded in the same manner and within the same limits of time. And when 
the Convention shall have assembled and the committee on credentials shall have been 
appointed-; the Secretary of the National Committee shall deliver to the said committee 
on credentials all credentials and other papers forwarded under this rule. 

XIII. — The Republican National Committee is authorized and empowered to 
select an executive committee to consist of nine members, who may or may not be 
members of the National Committee. v 

XIV. — All resolutions relating to the platform shall be referred to the Com- 
mittee on Resolutions without debate. 

XV. — No person except members of the several delegations and officers of the 
Convention shall be admitted to that section of the hall apportioned to delegates. 
XVI. — The Convention shall proceed in the following order of business: 
First — Report of the Committee oh Credentials. 
Second — Report of the Committee on Permanent Organization. 
Third— Report of Committee on Rules and Order of Business. 
Fourth — Report of the Committee on Resolutions. 
Fifth— Naming members of the National Committee. 
Sixth — Presentation of names of Candidates for President. 
Seventh — Balloting. 

Eighth — Presentation of names of Candidates for Vice President. 
Ninth — Balloting. 

Tenth— Call of the Roll of States, Territories, Alaska, the District of Co- 
lumbia, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, for names of delegates to 
serve respectively on Committees, to notify the nominees for President 
and Vice President of their selection for said offices. 
Respectfully submitted, \ 

FRANCIS E. WARREN (Wyoming), Chairman. 
HARRY H. MYERS (Arkansas), Secretary. 
Chicago, June 17, 1908. 

Mr. Francis E. Warren, of Wyoming. — Mr. Chairman, I move the 
adoption of the report presented by the committee. 

The Permanent Chairman. — Senator Warren, of Wyoming, chair- 
man of the Committee on Rules and Order of Business, moves the adop- 
tion of the report as read from the desk. 



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95 



Mr. James Francis Burke, of Pennsylvania. — Mr. Chairman and 
gentlemen of the Convention, on behalf of seventeen States as against 
the twenty-three that voted in favor of the majority report on the proposi- 
tion involving the representation to this convention, I am directed to pre- 
sent a minority report, which I ask the clerk to read, and I will then 
submit the views of the minority of the committee. 

The General Secretary read as follows : 

We recommend the adoption of the following rule by the National convention: 
That the basis of representation in the Republican National Convention here- 
after shall be as follows: Each state shall be entitled to four delegates-at-large and 
one additional delegate for each 10,000 votes or majority fraction thereof, cast at 
the last preceding presidential election for Republican electors, four delegates from 
each territory and two each from the District of Columbia, Alaska, Porto Rico and the 
Philippines, and that methods for the enforcement of this rule shall be provided by 
the Republican National Committee chosen by the delegates to this Convention. 



JAMES FRANCIS BURKE, 

Pennsylvania. 
WM. BARBOUR, New Jersey. 
A. N. GILBERT, Oregon. 
GEORGE A. LAUGHLIN, 

West Virginia. 
A. J. LOCKHART, South Dakota. 
HENRY H. FLATHER, 

Dist. of Columbia. 



JOHN FLETCHER, Rhode Island. 
F. A. CHANDLER, Maine. 
CHAS. M. JAR VIS, Connecticut. 
J. W. WADSWORTH, Jr., New York. 
W. B. M'KINLEY, Illinois. 
W. A. GUTHRIE, Indiana. 
GEORGE H. SULLIVAN, Minnesota. 
CLYDE C. DAWSON, Colorado. 
GILBERT F. DAVIS, Vermont. 



The following table shows the effect of 
indicates the increase or decrease of delegates 
new rule: 

Rep. vote 
in 1904. 

Alabama 22,474 

Arkansas 46,860 

California 205,226 

Colorado 134,687 

Connecticut 111,089 

Delaware 23,714 

Florida 8,314 

Georgia 24,003 

Idaho 47,783 

Illinois 632,645 

Indiana '. 368,289 

Iowa 307,907 

Kansas 210,893 

Kentucky 205,277 

Louisiana . 5,205 

Maine 64,432 

Maryland 109,497 

Massachusetts 257,822 

Michigan 361,863 

Minnesota 216,651 

Mississippi 3,187 



the rule on the various States, and 
in various States under the proposed 





Average 




Delegates 


votes per 


No. under 


now. 


delegate. 


new plan. 


22 


1,021 


6 


18 


2,603 


9 


20 


10,261 


25 


10 


13,468 


17 


14 


7,935 


15 


6 


3,952 


6 


10 


831 


5 


26 


923 


6 


6 


7,964 


9 


54 


11,716 


67 


30 


12,276 


41 


26 


11,842 


35 


20 


10,263 


25 


26 


7,895 


25 


18 


289 


5 


12 


5,369 


10 


16 


6,842 


15 


22 


8,057 


20 


28 


12,924 


40 


22 


9,848 


26 


20 


159 


4 



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Average 

Rep. vote Delegates votes per No. under 

in 1904. now. delegate. new plan, 

Missouri 321,449 36 8,929 30 

Montana 34,932 6 5,822 7 

Nebraska 138,558 16 8,660 18 

Nevada 6,867 6 1,144 5 

New Hampshire 54,177 8 6,772 9 

New Jersey 245,164 24 10,215 29 

New York 859,533 78 11,039 90 

North Carolina 82,442 24 3,435 12 

North Dakota 52,595 8 6,574 9 

Ohio 600,095 46 13,046 54 

Oklahoma 40,760 14 2,911 8 

Oregon 60,455 8 7,557 10 

Pennsylvania 840,949 68 12,367 88 

Rhode Island 41,605 8 5,201- 8 

South Carolina 2,554 18 136 4 

South Dakota 72,083 S 9,010 11 

Tennessee 105,369 24 4,390 15 

Texas 51 ,242 36 1 ,424 9 

Utah 62,446 8 10,406 10 

Vermont 40,459 8 5,057 8 

Virginia 47,880 24 1,995 9 

Washington 101,540 10 10,154 14 

West Virginia 132,620 14 9,473 IT , 

Wisconsin 280,164 26 10,775 32 

Wyoming 20,489 6 3,415 6 

Total 968 949 

Total Republican vote in 1904 7,623,486 

Number of Delegates from states.. 968 

Average vote to each delegate 7,876 



Mr. George H. Doty, of Massachusetts. — My name should be added 
to the report of the minority of the Committee on Rules and Order of 
Business. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The gentleman from Massachusetts- 
requests that his name be added to the minority report. 

Mr. Henry Lockney, of Wisconsin, addressed the Chair. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The gentleman from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. Burke) has the floor. 

Mr. Henry Lockney, of Wisconsin. — Will the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania yield to Wisconsin so we can join the minority report? 

Mr. Burke. — I am very glad to yield for that purpose. 

Mr. J. H. Gallinger, of New Hampshire. — On behalf of the mem- 
ber from New Hampshire on that committee, I desire to have his name 
added to the minority report. 

Mr. Reed Smoot, of Utah. — Utah desires that the name of its rep- 
resentative on that committee be added to the minority report. 

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names of Wisconsin, Utah and New Hampshire have been added to the 
minority report, as requested. 

Mr. W. E. Mollison, of Mississippi, addressed the Chair. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The gentleman from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. Burke) has the floor. 

Mr. James Francis Burke, of Pennsylvania. — Mr. Chairman and 
gentlemen of the Convention : Fifty years ago the Republican party was 
organized for the enforcement of justice, and from that hour until this 
she has not only preached and practiced that spirit at home, but she has 
carried it and taught it ten thousand miles beyond the seas, compelling the 
nations of the earth to respect it wherever our flag has floated. (Ap- 
plause.) She comes today to ask, yea, to demand that that for which she 
has stood for half a century shall be practiced in her own household and 
among her own brothers in framing the policies and nominating the 
candidates to be presented to the people of the American Republic. (Ap- 
plause.) 

The Republicans of the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania yield 
to none in their loyalty and devotion to the Republicans of the Southern 
States, nor would they deprive them of a single right to which they are 
entitled, but there is something in this Convention far more important 
than the nomination of candidates for office, and that is the enforcement 
of those just rules of conduct for the maintenance of which the Re- 
publican party was brought into being; for those principles the Repub- 
licans of Pennsylvania have fought at the polls and upon the battlefields 
of the nation, and whomsoever the candidates to be chosen by the delegates 
of this Convention, may be, the Keystone State will repeat the unpar- 
alleled majority she gave to Theodore Roosevelt at the last election. 
( Applause.) 

The basis of representation in this Convention is one which for years 
has challenged the attention of the people of all parties in every State 
in the Union. In the minds of all impartial men there- can be but one 
opinion of a rule that allows the State of South Carolina to cast one vote 
here for every 136 Republican votes that she polls at her general election, 
while it gives to Colorado one vote for every 13,000 votes cast at the 
same election ; there can be no divided notions regarding a rule that gives 
to Ohio one vote for every 13,046, and another state a vote for one per 
cent of that vote ; which gives to Mississippi one vote for every 159 
votes she casts and at the same time gives to Pennsylvania, to New York, 
to New Jersey and to many of the other great States of the North, the 
East and the West, like. Indiana and Illinois, upon whose soil we meet 
today, one vote for every 11,000 votes cast by her Republicans at the 
general election. 

The absurdity of the rule and the hardship it works may be illus- 
trated by the fact that if Pennsylvania were given the same representa- 
tion in this Convention today as South Carolina, we would have 680 



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delegates on this floor. (Applause.) If Ohio had her vote here appor- 
tioned upon the same basis and according to the same rule as South 
Carolina, she would be entitled to 540 delegates in this Convention. 
(Laughtei and applause.) 

The new rule of representation presented in the minority report is 
as fair as ever was presented to a political body for its adoption. 

As to whether or not this rule is just or fair to my Southern friends, 
let me cite the effect upon the State of Mississippi and the State of South 
Carolina for illustration. Under this rule we give to South Carolina a 
vote in the National Convention for approximately every 600 votes she 
casts, as against one for every 10,000 votes cast in New York, New 
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Wisconsin, and the other states. The 
same general proposition applies to Mississippi and other States in which 
the Republican vote has almost entirely disappeared. If the proportion 
of 600 to 10,000 is not fair, then I ask you in the name and in the spirit 
of justice, what is fair? (Applause.) 

I am not criticising any commonwealth or any branch of the party 
for that which it has been unable to accomplish. But for twenty years 
this proposition has been agitated and this evil of inequality has been in- 
creasing, and to illustrate the effect of the present rule upon Republican 
organizations North and South, I need only cite the fact that during 
the last twelve years in eleven States that have never cast an electoral 
vote for a Republican candidate for office, and in the light of present 
prospects and under present practices, never will, the Republican vote 
has fallen off 410,000 — disintegrated, disappeared until there is prac- 
tically nothing left; and at the same time and during the same period, 
while their votes have been disappearing and their Republican organizations 
have been disintegrating, the organization of the party in the other States 
for which I speak has been built up and the Republican vote has been 
increasing. During the same time, while the one set of States has lost 
410,000, we have increased our Republican majorities 540,000 (applause), 
a flat change of practically 1,000,000 votes in the election and not a single 
change in the basis of representation. Is that fair? Is that just? Can 
the Republican party afford to go before the people of this Republic in 
the coming campaign preaching the doctrine of the square deal to others 
while it denies it to the members of its own household? 

On behalf of the States that are entitled to fair representation in this 
Convention, North as well as South. I ask for the adoption of the amend- 
ment recommended by the minority of the Committee on Rules. (Pro- 
longed applause.) 

Mr. Augustus E. Willson, of Kentucky. — Mr. Chairman and gen- 
tlemen of the Convention: The argument which has been made here is 
not a new one. It is not without, at first thought, much to commend it. 
I do not rise to oppose it without fully appreciating that there is some 
reason for it. I can very well understand, from the impression it made 



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on my mind many conventions ago when first presented, that it was on 
its face fair, and why it has commanded here today an expression of 
approval. 

I wish, however, to present to you a note of caution against acting 
hastily in this matter. (Applause.) It is not, I may say, for the Re- 
publicans in my State a matter of such importance to Kentucky, for 
Kentucky will have under the 10,000 rule about the same representation 
it has under the old rule. In other words, we have a live, aggressive, 
earnest Republican army that is able to take care of itself and does not 
need this amendment the one way or the other. 

But I call your attention to the fact in the first place that if this 
amendment is adopted it will do more to make the Republican party a 
sectional party than the negro question has done to make the Democratic 
party a sectional party. (Applause.) 

I call your attention to, and I ask your calm and sensible consider- 
ation of the fact that with this amendment adopted the national Re- 
publican party may come to the emergency where four or five large States 
with Pennsylvania's enormous Republican majority, may dictate the Re- 
publican national nomination. (Applause.) It is not against Pennsyl- 
vania that I speak. Honor and glory to her magnificent Republican army. 
I speak because that kind of influence on the nomination might defeat 
the Republican party in the election, which, under the Constitution, must 
be held by the votes of the States and not by a popular vote. (Applause.) 

Now I ask your attention to one other thought. Many Southern 
Republicans, like many Northern Republicans, have chafed under the con- 
tinual rule of prejudice in many of the Southern States, which has re- 
sulted in bringing the Republican party to almost insignificant proportions 
in some States. We have longed for the time when the rule of prejudice 
should end and when the real Americans of the South should resume 
freedom of opinion and vote according to their intelligence, their patriot- 
ism and their good judgment. I believe that the sun of that day is 
rising, gentlemen of the Convention. 

I call your attention to the fact, not with any sectional spirit, be- 
cause in my heart I have no feeling of that kind in the world; I have 
been a Republican from 1856 until now; but I call your attention to the 
fact that the South has perhaps the most homogeneous native American 
population in this country, and I call your attention to the fact that it 
may well come to pass and at no distant day when the South may be the 
very sheet anchor of the safety of the Republic. (Applause.) 

Now just a word in conclusion. This is the third or fourth time 
this question has come up. The quiet, thoughtful judgment of the Repub- 
lican party, without any appeals to passion or prejudice, or anything 
in the way of eloquence, has on each occasion decided against it, be- 
cause the plan itself is inconsistent with the plan of the Constitution for 
an election by the States. Shall you make that serious departure on the 



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momentary impulse aroused by figures which show an apparent injustice? 
After all is not South Carolina a member of the sisterhood of States? 
(Applause.) Is not Mississippi clear American, and a member of the 
sisterhood of States? (Applause.) If it is, shall you lightly depart 
from the rule of the Constitution? I give you this note of warning, 
that no good will come of it ; that it is in more danger of making your 
party a sectional party than the effect of some other unfortunate sug- 
gestions has been in making the Democratic party a sectional party. Let 
us make the Republican party not only the party of the Union, but 
the party of the States in their original integrity. Let us hold in the 
management of the affairs of the Republican party to the plan of the 
Constitution, to the letter of the law. I appeal not from personal motive, 
nor from sectional prejudice, but from a deep and solemn conviction 
of what is wisest not only for the future of the Republican party, but 
in a greater sense for the future and welfare of this nation. (Applause.) 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Chair desires to call attention to 
the fact that under the rule the limit of debate is five minutes. The 
Chair has permitted in the two principal speeches,, one on each side, a 
greater latitude, but the Chair will feel it his duty to enforce the five 
minute rule henceforth, as the debate seems likely to be protracted. 

Mr. J. Warren Keifer, of Ohio. — Gentlemen of the Convention : 
The time is too short to express properly my views on this important 
question. I speak without consultation with my colleagues,, but I hope 
they will agree with me that the report of the minority to reduce in the 
future representation in Republican National Conventions is a stepping 
stone to the achievement and accomplishment of a greatly needed re- 
form in our elections in the United States. Eleven Southern States four 
years ago polled about 300,000 less votes than were polled that year in 
the State of New York. Those eleven States elected 119 electors, and 
the State of New York 39. Thirty-seven Representatives in the House 
of Representatives were elected that year in New York, and in those 
eleven States, with 300,000 less votes, they elected ninety-seven Repre- 
sentatives. In several districts of several States there were more votes 
polled in recent years in many Congressional districts by the Democrats 
in the North than were polled in the State of Mississippi all told, yet 
the Democrats in these districts did not elect anybody, while they 
elected eight Democratic Representatives in Mississippi. Other equally 
striking examples could be given to demonstrate the suppression of both 
the white and colored vote. 

We should, therefore, enforce in our conventions the principle of 
the second section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of 
the United States, and then we shall have no such inequality from the 
South. (Applause.) 

The great governor of Kentucky (Mr. Willson) says that the hope 
of the Republic may come from the South. T agree with him, but it 



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will only be when they recognize, in all the States, as they do in Ken- 
tucky and Missouri, the principles upon which this Government was 
founded, equality of rights and citizenship. 

He says he will welcome the time when prejudice shall cease in the 
South. I will welcome it too, but is it to cease in the South when an 
oligarchy or an autocracy has put under its feet many millions of 
people and denied them all their political and constitutional rights? 

Will prejudice and wrong towards the citizen voter only cease in 
the South when conditions are such that it can be said as was said by 
the great Czar (Nicholas) of Russia that peace reigned in certain parts 
of his territory when he had destroyed everybody therein? (Applause.) 

We have carried the principles of Republicanism to Porto Rico and 
Hawaii ; we have extended the flag half-way around the world to the 
Philippines. We are now, with our army in Cuba, trying to get a fair 
election there. 

We have had within a day or two a proclamation to Panama that 
they should have an honest and a fair election. 

Why should we not also have honest and fair elections in all the 
States of the Union? If this cannot be then we should have representa- 
tion in Congress and in our National Conventions based on the population 
allowed the privilege of voting. Those who disfranchise citizens should 
not be allowed representation based on the disfranchised ; should not 
be permitted to vote for or represent those excluded from the elections. 

I am through, gentlemen, but I want to say that we want fair elec- 
tions and equality of representation in the United States of America. 
(Applause.) 

Mr. Myron T. Herrick, of Ohio. — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of 
the Convention : I have listened with great interest to Governor Willson 
of Kentucky. I believe that he has taken the proper view of this ques- 
tion of apportionment. I certainly agree with him in the hope that the 
amendment will not prevail. The report just made represents the best 
judgment of the National Committee and of the Committee on Rules 
and Order of Business. This report to which full and comprehensive 
consideration has been given should not be lightly set aside. The amend- 
ment involves problems that do not appear in Mr. Burke's able argument. 
You must not overlook the fact that the question of Southern repre- 
sentation and the race- question are concealed in this amendment. That 
there are inequalities in the present method of selecting delegates is true. 
But, in the face of the recommendation of the Committee, on the scant 
consideration that can be given by this convention, to adopt a rule that 
will completely change the long established policy of the Republican 
Party in this respect, will, I fear, involve us in further difficulties. Let 
us not, in this offhand manner, commit the party to a policy which, at 
the present time, is big with the possibility of dire consequences. ( Ap- 
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The Republican Party committed the country to the 15th amendment 
— now a part of the organic law of the nation. It is the duty of Con- 
gress to deal with all questions growing out of this amendment to the 
constitution, and I maintain that the question before us is one that should 
be considered by that body rather than by a Republican convention. 
(Applause.) If the laws are not enforced to the end that every citizen 
receives justice under the constitution then the executive department of 
the government should act. These are axiomatic truths — simple matters 
of justice that should not require a resolution of this convention. 

There is another side to this question which I do not hesitate to 
say is of great importance at this time, and that is the consideration of 
expediency. Those who favor and those who oppose certain nominations 
here today are well aware that this phase is of great importance. The 
densely populated districts — the cities, have not yet demonstrated their 
capacity for self, government; the less thickly settled portions of the 
country — the rural districts, have, and on them rests the life and hope 
of this triumphant democracy. On the other hand, should we adopt this 
amendment we would give to our opponents a very formidable weapon 
of attack. In districts where the rule would seem to work an injustice 
we would drive many of our friends to the other party. [ beg of you, 
gentlemen, not to act hastily in this matter. We are on the threshold 
of a great campaign that is of equal, if not greater importance than that 
of 1896. For the sake of a temporary advantage, or for the sake of an 
ethical question — the details of which have not been properly worked 
out, we can not afford, at this time, to give to the enemy this great 
advantage. I believe that I voice the sentiment of the Republican Party 
of Ohio. (Applause.) 

Mr. H. L. Remmel, of Arkansas. — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of 
the Convention : I desire to emphatically indorse the President's policy 
as to the enforcement of law. As was stated to you today by the Chair- 
man of this convention, he said, "the President has enforced the laws as 
he found them on the statute books." It has been said that this change 
of apportionment was a matter of expediency. Whether it is or not, 
what we want today is the enforcement of the organic law of the country. 
(Applause.) So that the representation in Congress, based upon the 
people you are trying to disfranchise, will be changed as it should be 
changed. When you do that we will talk to you about being disfran- 
chised ourselves. (Applause.) Here is a point you may not have con- 
sidered. I was looking over the number of delegates, the different 
states were entitled to in this convention, and I found this fact gentle- 
men, you have heard much talk in recent years of the centralization of 
power and its possible menace to the Republic. Look upon this result: 
Eight great states of the Union could today nominate the President, 
based upon this new apportionment, and in the future they could nominate 
the President and Vice-President, and write the platform ; and the thirty- 



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eight other states and territories of the Union would be absolutely voice- 
less in the convention. These eight states embrace the great centers 
of commercialism. In these centers greed ofttimes puts patriotism to 
flight. These are pertinent facts. Which are those states? They are the 
states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 
Michigan and Wisconsin. Do you want to centralize the power of this 
great government in those eight states? Beware, my friends, beware. 
This is not a matter of expediency, but a matter of infinite danger to 
the nation. 

Now what else? There is another question involved. What do you 
think will be said at the polls by the twenty-nine thousand colored voters 
of the state of Illinois if you perpetrate this kind of an outrage upon 
their race; because it is largely aimed against their race. What will the 
thirty-two thousand colored voters of Ohio say? What will the eighteen 
thousand colored voters of Indiana say? What will the twenty-one thou- 
sand colored voters of New Jersey say? And the thirty-one thousand in 
New York, the ten thousand in Massachusetts, the three thousand in 
Rhode Island the fifty-one thousand in the great state of Pennsylvania; 
and my. friends, the forty-five thousand in the state of Missouri, which 
gave its electoral vote four years ago to Theodore Roosevelt. (Applause.) 

What else, my friends? There is another point: and equally as 
plausible an argument could be presented as that made by the Chairman 
of the minority on the question of electing United States Senators, if 
instead as under the present regime states were entitled to Senators on 
the basis of votes cast and counted, taking the state of Delaware's vote 
as a basis of securing two United States Senators ; the state of New York 
with her enormous vote would be entitled to seventy United States Sen- 
ators, and the state of Pennsylvania would be entitled to over sixty 
United States Senators. Fortunately, such a plan was never contem- 
plated by the founders of the Government any more than this present 
plan of the minority of the Committee, which for the first time in over 
a hundred years, in a great National Convention seriously undertakes to 
disfranchise American citizens in one-fourth of the states of the Union. 

What else, my friends? Do you think that the great party of Lin- 
coln, the great party of Grant, the great party of Garfield and of Mc- 
Kinley, the beloved, and of our own strenuous and invincible President, 
is in favor of this disfranchising of the people? Never, my friends, 
never. (Applause.) Beware; beware lest you undermine the very foun- 
dations of the temple which our great leaders have builded and defended 
by the best blood of the Republic. (Applause.) 

Gentlemen, this outrage must not be perpetrated by this great party 
of liberty, whose immortal leader bore its banner aloft in the nation's 
greatest crisis, striking the shackles from the slaves, and making pos- 
sible that every man should have equal and exact rights with every other 
inan even in a Republican National Convention. (Applause.) 



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Mr. George T. Buckingham, of Illinois. — Mr. Chairman and Gentle- 
men of the Convention : Since the National Committee met two weeks 
ago its time has been chiefly occupied in settling disputes among the 
members of the Republican party from the States of the far South. 
(Applause.) A disinterested observer would have believed that trie chief 
concerns of the great party were those of Alabama and Arkansas and 
Florida. And now that these are happily settled, now that peace reigns 
like a white-winged dove on their factional differences they will go from. 
here, and so far as Republican activities are concerned we will hear no- 
more of them until the next national convention meets. (Applause.) 
But, gentlemen of the convention, when the tumult and the shouting die 
away, and the captains and the kings depart, then, the eyes of the Re- 
publicans of the nation will turn to that great galaxy of States that ex- 
tends from the Atlantic to the further waters, and New York, Pennsyl- 
vania Indiana, Illinois and Iowa will be called upon to uphold the party 
banner. 

The State of Alabama is represented on this floor by eighteen district 
delegates. The district that I have the honor to represent, the one that 
claims for its foremost citizen the first citizen of Illinois, Joseph G. 
Cannon, cast more votes at the last election than the whole State of 
Alabama. I deny that one Republican in Alabama should have more voice 
in his party's councils than nine in a district upon the fertile plains of 
Illinois. The gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Willson) has asked: Is 
not South Carolina a part of the sisterhood of States? I answer him that 
it is, and I want her to have one vote for every vote that the citizen 
of any other State has in the party councils, and — no more. (Applause.) 
Every Republican State has its representation in its State convention based 
upon the votes of its counties. If that is a good rule for the Republican 
States it is a good rule for the whole national party of Republicans. (Ap- 
plause.) And so I say, Mr. Chairman, speaking in the supreme court 
of the Republican party for the State of Lincoln and of Grant, that we 
desire that there shall be equal representation from the Atlantic to the 
Pacific and throughout every .part of the vast domains of this splendid 
Republic, and then every commonwealth will have its fair and just share 
in the deliberations of the great Republican party. (Applause.) I thank 
you. 

Mr. James W. Wads worth, Jr., of New York. — Mr. Chairman and 
Gentlemen of the Convention : I simply appear before you as a member 
of the Committee on Rules and Order of Business, representing the 
New York State delegation to this convention, and as a member of that 
committee who signed the minority report. The New York State dele- 
gation believe in the principle set forth in the minority report. We 
believe that this principle is absolutely right and we believe also that it 
is always politically expedient to do right. (Applause.) 

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this Convention, as has been well pointed out, is well nigh absurd. Take 
an instance that I know of myself. I happen to live in a tiny little county 
in the western end of New York State. That little county casls twice 
as many Republican votes as the State of Mississippi; and yet as a repre- 
sentative it has only about one tenth of me. (-Laughter.) 

Mr. Chairman, I simply desire to assure the representatives of the 
other States who have joined in the minority report that the great dele- 
gation from the State of New York is solidly behind them, and will show 
its colors when the roll is called. (Applause.) 

Mr. Sydney E. Mudd, of Maryland. — Mr. Chairman, until the law- 
making body of this country, in the control of the Republicans, sees fit 
to take some action to regulate representation in Congress because of 
the suppression of suffrage, it is well that we should not act hastily in 
what we do. 

I move, sir, that this matter be committed to the National Committee 
for consideration and report at the next National Convention. I make 
thai motion en behalf of the State of Maryland. 

Mr. Henry C. Warmoth, of Louisiana. — Mr. Chairman and Gentle- 
men : Southern Republicans apparently are not very much in favor in this 
convention this afternoon. (Applause.) There is a good deal to be 
said on both sides of this question, but when I see the gentleman from 
Ohio (Mr. Keifer) stand up here and talk about the Republicans of the 
South polling no votes, I should like to ask him the reason. (Applause.) 
We elect Republican Congressmen from Louisiana and send them to 
Congress. We send them in spite of election laws, in spite of murder, 
in spite of violence and General Keifcr's House of Representatives turns 
our people out for Democrats. (Applause.) We would have five Re- 
publican Members of Congress from Louisiana today if the House of 
Representatives would do its duty. 

We have polled 90,000 Republican votes in that State, and we have 
sent men to Congress, and the Committee on Elections found it ex- 
tremely convenient to seat Democrats in the House, notwithstanding the 
frauds and outrages. 

Gentlemen of the Convention, I appeal to you not only in the name 
of the colored men of the South, but of the hundreds of thousands of 
white Republicans in the South who are watching the action of this 
Convention today, and who will feel that they have been insulted and 
affronted by a Republican National Convention if you adopt this amend- 
ment. 1 beg of you not to take this action and thus to bring upon us 
reproach — reproach for which we are not to blame, but for which the 
House of Representatives is to blame. 

Mr. Henry L. Johnson, of Georgia. — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen 
of the Convention : The appeal is honestly made to you by those who 
more than any others would be affected by the minority report, that it 
is premature and will always be premature in a Republican National 



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Convention until in the first instance Republican Congresses have done 
their duty. (Applause.) 

One great thing that makes Theodore Roosevelt the beloved man of 
earth is his enforcement of the law as we have it. We ask you, we 
appeal to you, that before you reduce Georgia's twenty-two district votes- 
in your Convention, based on eleven Congressmen, you will in the first 
instance reduce the number of those Congressmen. I appeal to you, if 
that does not please you, to enact into law the Lodge bill. 

Gentlemen of the Convention, if you pass a law that will protect me 
in my right to vote in Georgia, guaranteed under the constitutional law 
of this country, and then I do not vote, cut me down. (Applause.) 
But do not strike me down until after in the first instance you shall have 
given me one chance to vote in safety of my life and limb. (Applause.) 

In conclusion, let me say there is no desire on the part of drones- 
from Georgia or elsewhere to vote, but if you will surround me with 
the safeguards of the law in the remote places in Georgia, as you are 
surrounded with them in the State of Pennsylvania, and then I am a 
drone, then, and only then strike me down. 

Gentlemen of the Convention, our position is plain. We can not 
see that in good conscience you should punish me, who tries to keep the 
law, and put a premium on my Democratic neighbor in Georgia who dis- 
obeys the law. (Applause.) I do not see why I should be punished in 
a Republican National Convention and a premium put on Democratic 
Congressmen from sister States who beast that their hands are baptized 
in the blood of American citizens in order to prevent their voting under 
the law. (Applause.) 

Do your duty under the law in the first instance, and if I do not do 
mine, then, and only then, strike me down. Give me the chance of an 
American citizen. Give to my benighted people that equal opportunity 
that you demand and do have for yourselves. Pass an honest election- 
law which will guarantee to me the right to vote in safety and in peace,, 
and if we do not give you six Republican Congressmen from Georgia 
under that law, we would never again ask to have representation in a 
Republican Convention. (Applause.) 

Mr. James E. Watson, of Indiana, addressed the Chair. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Chair presents Mr. Watson, the 
next Governor of Indiana. (Applause.) 

Mr. James E. Watson, of Indiana. — My distinguished friend,. 
Governor Herrick, of Ohio, said that this is a question of expedi- 
ency. In that opinion I do not share. It is not a question of policy, 
but of right. It is not a question of expediency, but one of fundamental 
principle in this Government of ours. The Republican party was born 
that men miorht remain equal in our Stages and under our flag. Equality 
of opportunity, equality of privilege, equality at the ballot box — equality 
is the watchword of the Republic, as it has been the watchword of the- 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 107 

Republican party from the day of Abraham Lincoln down to this hour 
of glory. And it has been made so because the Republican party has 
believed in human equality. 

My friend who has just spoken has mistaken this contest. He says 
that he is to be punished. Punished! Punished, why forsooth? Is it 
punishment when a gentleman whose color is black is placed upon an 
equality with a man of like color and of like opportunity in Indiana? 
No gentlemen, this is a question of treating everybody alike, regardless 
of State lines, regardless of the section of the Union from which they 
may come. Ah, but these gentlemen have said we have not done our 
duty in Congress ! I will say to these men that so far as I am con- 
cerned, so far as a majority of the Republicans in the House of Repre- 
sentatives is concerned, for twelve years we have labored to have repre- 
sentation from the Southland reduced, but it has not been done. 

But here, gentlemen, is the place to begin the reform. Congress 
•does not rule this convention. This convention comes from the people, 
the source of all power ; and let us hope our votes this day will instruct 
the American Congress what its course shall be in the days that are to 
come. (Applause.) 

Gentlemen, why is it that these men think they are to be punished? 
There is no punishment about it. If our brethren from the South, whom 
we all love, if our brethren whom two millions of men went from the 
Northland to make forever and forever free, want more representation 
in Republican National Conventions, let them get out and work and or- 
ganize and bring men to the polls. (Applause.) And on the strength 
of the vote let them send their representatives here. 

This is a question of equality. It is a question of principle. It is 
a question fundamental, not only in republican government, but in the 
Republican party, and I appeal to you to stand by the minority report 
and let the representatives of the South come without any taint of sus- 
picion, free from contest, as delegates come from every other State in 
this Union of ours. (Applause.) I hope the minority report will be 
adopted. 

Mr. R. H. Angell, of Virginia. — I want to apologize to you. gentle- 
men of this convention, for appearing before you after the distinguished 
gentlemen who have preceded me, but I cannot in justice to the people 
whom I have the honor to represent here today refrain from airing my 
protest against this sour-grape amendment to the Republican Consti- 
tution of this country. 

I am not one of the Virginia Republicans who is a Republican for 
the purpose of holding office. The only office I have ever asked for 
was one that was in the gift of the people, and it was graciously given 
to me. I want to say to you gentlemen here today that I have always 
"been taught that there was a sentiment in the Republican party of this 
mation that there was glory enough for us all. Gentlemen, if this amend- 



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ment is carried here today, the glory will go to only a few States of 
this Union. 

I want to refer to the statement made by the gentleman from Illinois 
(Mr. Buckingham), in which he stated that since the contests had all 
been settled we would go back and as far as this convention would know 
there would be no more Republican activity in the Southern States. 
Gentlemen, if any Republican in this convention will come to Virginia 
and spend one election day by the side of your humble servant, we can 
give him all the activity he will be interested in. 

It costs us something to be Republicans in the commonwealth of 
Virginia, and I want to say further, gentlemen, that when the leaders 
of this great nation, when the leaders of the Republican party call on 
the commonwealths in the South to help maintain and help, -defend with 
arms the policies of this government, wc readily send you ou'r Lees from 
the South ; we send to you our Wheelers ; we send you our Hobsons ; 
we send men who will stand shoulder to shoulder with you ; and we ask 
of you that you give us fair treatment. 

I want to call your attention to a fact that accounts for the small 
vote we get in Virginia. Gentlemen who have familiarized themselves 
with the facts know that by the constitution of our State., the colored 
people have been disfranchised. Many of them are fine young men, but 
on account of the fact that they are unable to comply with the require- 
ments of the understanding clause of the constitution they are unable 
to vote. 

We ask you not to treat us as the Democrats have treated us. By 
this action you would ratify what the Democrats have done in our State,, 
and I ask that you do not do it. 

I thank you. 

Mr. M. H. De Young, of California. — On behalf of the State of 
California, I call for the previous question. 

The demand was seconded by New Hampshire, West Virginia, Illinois 
and other States, and the previous question was ordered. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The gentleman from Maryland (Mr. 
Mudd) moves to recommit the amendment. He can not move to recom- 
mit the amendment. He has to move to recommit the entire report of 
the committee. 

Mr. Sydney E. Mudd, of Maryland. — That was my motion, but I 
do not insist on it. We may as well have a vote on the main question. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The gentleman from Maryland with- 
draws his motion. The question is on substituting for Rule 1 as reported 
by the committee the amendment offered by the gentleman from Penn- 
sylvania (Mr. Burke.) Is the Convention ready for the question? (Cries 
of "question"). 

Mr. Myron T. Herrick, of Ohio. — Is an amendment in order ? 



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109 



Mr. James Francis Burke, of Pennsylvania. — On behalf of Penn- 
sylvania, I ask for a roll call on the pending question. 

Mr. Albert J. Beveridge, of Indiana. — Mr. Chairman, we demand a 
roll call. 

The demand was seconded by West Virginia, New Jersey, and other 
States. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Secretary will call the roll on 
the question of agreeing to the amendment to Rule 1 reported by the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Burke) on behalf of a minority of 
the Committee on Rules and Order of lousiness. 

The Secretary having called the roll, the result was announced — Yeas 
471, Nays 506, as follows : 



States, Number of Votes 

Territories Etc. in Convention. 

Alabama 22 

Arkansas ~ 18 

California 20 

Colorado ; 10 

Connecticut 14 

Delaware 6 

Florida 10 

Georgia 26 

Idaho 6 

Illinois 54 

Indiana 30 

Iowa • 26 

Kansas 20 

Kentucky 26 

Louisiana 18 

Maine 12 

Maryland 16 

Massachusetts 32 

Michigan 28 

Minnesota 22 

Mississippi 20 

Missouri 36 

Montana 6 

Nebraska 16 

Nevada 6 

New Hampshire S 

New Jersey 24 

New York 78 

North Carolina 24 

North Dakota 8 

Ohio 46 

Oklahoma .- 14 

Oregon 8 

Pennsylvania 68 

Rhode Is'and 8 

South Carolina 18 

South Dakota 8 

Tennessee 24 



Yeas 



54 



Nays. 
22 
IS 

20 



10 






20 




20 


1 


25 




IS 




16 


32 




18 


10 


1.0 


11 




20 


12 


24 




6 


7 


9 




6 



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States, Number of Votes 

Territories Etc. in Convention. Yeas. !\fays. 

Texas 36 .. .36 

Utah 6 6 

Vermont 8 8 

Virginia 24 . . 24 

Washington 10 4 6 

West Virginia 14 14 

Wisconsin 26 26 

Wyoming 6 .. 6 

Alaska 2 2 

Arizona .• 2 

District of Columbia 2 

Hawaii 2 

New Mexico 2 

Philippine Islands 2 

Porto Rico 2 



Totals 



Not voting: Minnesota 1, New Mexico 2. 

So the amendment reported by Mr. Burke on behalf of a minority 
of the committee was rejected. 

Mr. Henry Lockney, of Wisconsin. — Mr. Chairman, I offer the 
amendment I serd to the desk. 

s The Permanent Chairman. — The Secretary will state the amend- 
ment. 

The Secretary. — The gentleman from Wisconsin moves to amend 
the majority report as follows: Amend Rule 12 of the report of the 
Committee on Rules and Order of Business by striking out from said 
rule as reported the following : "Delegates-at-large for each State and 
their alternates shall be elected by State conventions in their respective 
States." 

Mr. Henry Lockney, of Wisconsin. — The trouble with the language 
proposed to be stricken out is that in a great many States there are 
primary election laws. Wisconsin has a primary election law which pro- 
vides for the election of every officer, state and national, including dele- 
gates-at-large to this Convention, by direct vote of the people. We have 
there no State convention at all. Now, this matter came up in the com- 
mittee, and my understanding was that it should be left to the National 
Committee to name the method of selec'ing delegates in order that it 
might meet the situation in the different States and permit any State to 
conform to its own statute law. 

We do not care how any other State elects its delegates-at-large, 
but we insist that you recognize our ri.sfht to party self-government by 
permitting: us to elect in our own fashion, and that will be accomplished 
and no harm will be done to any one by striking out this one sentence 
from the rule. We ask you to do that, creirlemen. and we ask you not 
to refuse to do it and thus attack the Republican party of the State of 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. Ill 

Wisconsin and make it exceedingly difficult for every Republican speaker 
who will address audiences in that State in behalf of the winning ticket 
that we expect to nominate here. We ask it in fairness and justice, 
and in the name of our own integrity as a State. We are elected here 
today under that law. 

Mr. George H. Sullivan, of Minnesota. — Mr. Chairman, as the 
chairman of the subcommittee which drafted this particular part of the 
report I wish to say that the amendment offered by the gentleman from 
Wisconsin is a very proper one, and the language should be stricken out. 
It was drawn up hastily and is a mistake. So there is no use making 
any argument about it. The way it stands in the rule it is entirely super- 
fluous. I second the amendment. 

Mr. Francis E. Warren, of Wyoming. — I endorse what has been 
said by the gentleman from Minnesota. There can be no harm in strik- 
ing out the phrase as proposed by the gentleman from Wisconsin. 

Mr. J. Warren Keifer, of Ohio. — Allow me to suggest that the rule 
as proposed to be amended be read. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Secretary will read as requested. 

The General Secretary. — The gentleman from Wisconsin moves 
to strike out from Rule 12 as reported by the committee the words 

"Delegates at large for each state and their alternates shall be elected by 
State conventions in their respective States;" 

So that if amended Rule 12 will read as follows : 

XII. — A Republican National Committee shall be appointed, to consist of one 
member from each State, Territory, Alaska, the District of Columbia, Porto Rico, 
and the Philippine Islands. The roll shall be called and the delegation from each 
State, Territory, Alaska, the District of Columbia, Porto Rico, and the Philippine 
Islands shall name, through its chairman, a person who shall act as member of 
said Committee. Such Committee shall issue the call for the meeting of the National 
Convention within sixty days at least before the time fixed for said meeting, and 
delegates to the National Convention shall be chosen in such manner as the National 
Committee shall provide. An alternate delegate for each delegate to the National 
Convention, to act in case of the absence of the delegate, shall be elected in the 
same manner and at the same time as a delegate is elected. Twenty days before the 
day set for the meeting of the National Convention the credentials of each delegate 
and alternate shall be forwarded to the Secretary of the National Committee for 
use in making up the temporary roll of the Convention. Notices of contests shall be 
forwarded in the same manner and within the same limits of time. And when 
the Convention shall have assembled and the committee on credentials shall have 
been appointed, the Secretary of the National Committee shall deliver to the said 
committee on credentials all credentials and other papers forwarded under this 
rule. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The question is on agreeing to the 
amendment effered by the gentleman from Wisconsin. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The question is on agreeing to the 
report of the Committee on Rules and Order of Business as amended. 



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Mr. Francis E. Warren, of Wyoming. — Upon that I move the 
previous question. 

The demand for the previous question was seconded by West Vir- 
ginia, Mississippi and other States, and the previous question was ordered. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The question is on agreeing to the 
report of the Committee on Rules and Order of Business, as amended. 

The report as amended was agreed to. 

Mr. Francis E. Warren, of Wyoming. — I move that the Convention 
take a recess until 9 o'clock this evening. 

Mr. John Franklin Fort, of New Jersey. — Pending that, I move 
that the Convention adjourn until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. 

The motion was agreed to, and (at 5 o'clock p. m.) the Convention 
adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, June 18, 1908, at 10 o'clock a. m. 




MILTON W. BLUMENBERG, of Illinois, 
Official Reporter of the Convention. 



THE THIRD DAY 

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS — MINORITY 
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS AND 
THE VOTE THEREON — PRESENTATION OF NAMES OF 
CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT — BALLOT FOR CANDI- 
DATES FOR PRESIDENT — NOMINATION OF THE CAN- 
DIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. 

CONVENTION HALL 

The Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois, June 18, 1908. 

The Convention was called to order by the Permanent Chairman at 
10 o'clcck a. m. 

The Permanent Chairman (Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massa- 
chusetts.) — Rev. Dr. John Wesley Hill, pastor of Metropolitan Temple, 
New York, will offer prayer. 

PRAYER OF REV. DR. JOHN WESLEY HILL. 

Rev. Dr. John Wesley Hill, of New York, offered the following 
prayer : 

O Thou that dwellest in light, and unto whom all things unfold in 
their ripeness and beauty, Thou who art the center of the wide-spread 
universe, drawing all things in ever-increasing harmony toward Thyself : 
to Thee we come, and we thank Thee that upon us Thy knowledge has 
dawned, that for us Thy Spirit strives, while about us are the tokens of 
Thy love and before us are the, rewards of that righteousness which ex- 
alteth men and nations. We praise Thee for the blessings of this day, 
for the beneficence of nature, for friends and friendship, for light and 
liberty and eternal life. We bless Thee especially for our country, for 
the Providence which brought it to light and peopled it with patriots, for 
Plymouth Reck and the Pilgrim Fa' hers; for the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence, the "Chart and compass cf all human rights," and for all the 
want and woe and glory of those vanished years ! Thou didst bring us 
through that midnight of despair, and in the dawn of victory, Thou didst 
give to us a flag, for the meaning and history of which we praise Thee, 
a flag which is no holiday banner, but a solemn signal, the symbol of 
liberty and equality, national authority and honor. We thank Thee for 
that flag, for its symbols and prophecy and glory. 

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And now, we beseech Thee, let Thy blessing rest upon this Conven- 
tion. Grant that its deliberations may be seasoned with wisdom, that its- 
platform may be founded in justice, and that its candidates may represent 
the highest ideals for the Government and the governed; and thus may 
these delegates serve their country with heart responsive to every public 
need, with brain clear to comprehend every interest and issue, with a 
patriotism and devotion to principle worthy the inspiration of leadership. 
Bless all judges and law-makers and those who have the execution of 
the laws ; bless the Governors of the various States, and the Mayors of 
all the cities. Bless the great body of citizens : may they be God-fearing 
and law-abiding ; may they be filled with the knowledge that shall banish: 
darkness; may intelligence be wedded to virtue and virtue be joined to 
piety, so that men may live together in the liberty and love of the com- 
mon brotherhood of man! Let it be ours to stand -among the nations 
of the earth with such firmness toward the strong and gentleness toward 
the weak that all men may love liberty and behold the divine source 
whence our liberty comes. Command Thy blessing, we pray Thee, not 
upon our land alone, but upon all the nations of the earth, especially upon 
those that sit in darkness; bring upon them spring and summer, that there- 
may be flowering and fruiting. Bring to pass all the dreams and hopes 
and prophecies for the future of the world which are now so dimly seen, 
but which are certain of consummation ! Send out Thy light and Thy 
truth, until the brightness shall shine from sea to sea, and the prayer 
so often offered with tears and groans — "Thy Kingdom come" — shall 
be changed into the exultant shout — "The kingdoms of this world have 
become the Kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ !" 

HON. GEORGE H. WILLIAMS. 

Mr. Charles W. Fulton, of Oregon. — Mr. Chairman and gentlemen 
of the Convention, the delegation from Oregon is proud of the fact and' 
deems it an honor to state to the Convention that among its members is 
the last surviving member of President Grant's Cabinet, in the person of 
the Hon. George H. Williams, who was elected to the United States 
Senate in 1864. He was a member of the Reconstruction Committee of the 
Senate, the author of the reconstruction bill and of the tenure of office act, 
and framed in the exact language in which it now appears the Fourteenth' 
Amendment. He was afterward appointed Attorney General under Pres- 
ident Grant. He is now in his eighty-sixth year. He has a mind excep- 
tionally clear and strong, that locks back upon a life singularly replete 
with participation in great historic events. 

As a mark of respect to this distinguished citizen I move that he be 
invited to a seat upon the platform. 

The motion was agreed to. 




HON. ALBERT J. HOPKINS, of Illinois, 
Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 115 

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. 

Mr. Albert J. Hopkins, of Illinois, addressed the Chair. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Chair recognizes Senator Hop- 
kins, of Illinois, chairman of the Committee on Resolutions. 

Mr. Albert J. Hopkins, of Illinois, chairman of the Committee on 
Resolutions, read the report of that committee, as follows : 

NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. 

Once more the Republican Party, in National Convention assembled, 
submits its cause to the people. This great historic organization, that de- 
stroyed slavery, preserved the Union restored credit, expanded the na- 
tional domain, established a sound financial system, developed the indus- 
tries and resources of the country, and gave to the nation her seat of 
honor in the councils of the world, now meets the new problems of gov- 
ernment with the same courage and capacity with which it solved the old. 

REPUBLICANISM UNDER ROOSEVELT. 

In this the greatest era of American advancement the Republican party- 
has reached its highest service under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt. 
His administration is an epoch in American history. In no other period 
since national sovereignty was won under Washington, or preserved under 
Lincoln, has there been such mighty progress in those ideals of govern- 
ment which make for justice, equality and fair dealing among men. The 
highest aspirations of the American people have found a voice. Their 
most exalted servant represents the best aims and worthiest purposes of 
all his countrymen. American manhood has been lifted to a nobler sense 
of duty and obligation. Conscience and courage in public station and 
higher standards of right and wrong in private life have become cardinal 
principles cf political faith; capital and labor have been brought into 
closer relations of confidence and interdependence; and the abuse of 
wealth, the tyranny of power, and all the evils of privilege and favorit- 
ism have been put to scorn by the simple, manly virtues of justice and 
fair play. 

The great accomplishments of President Roosevelt have been, first 
and foremost, a brave and impartial enforcement of the law ; the prose- 
cution of illegal trusts and monopolies ; the exposure and punishment of 
evil-doers in the public service ; the more effective regulation of the rates 
and service of the great transppr f ation lines; the complete overthrow of 
preferences, rebates and discriminations; the arbitration of labor disputes; 
the amelioration of the condition of wage-workers everywhere: the con- 
servation of the natural resources of the country ; the forward step in 
the improvement of the inland waterways ; and always the earnest sup- 



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port and defense of every wholesome safeguard which has made more 
secure the guaranties of life, liberty and property. 

These are the achievements that will make for Theodore Roosevelt 
his place in history, but more than all else the great things he has done 
will be an inspiration to those who have yet greater things to do. We de- 
clare our unfaltering adherence to the policies thus inaugurated, and pledge 
their continuance under a Republican administration of the Government. 

EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY. 

Under the guidance of Republican principles the American people 
have become the richest nation in the world. Our wealth today exceeds 
that of England and all her colonies, and that of France and Germany 
combined. When the Republican Party was born the total Wealth of the 
country was $16,000,000,000. It has leaped to $110,000,000,000 in a gen- 
eration, while Great Britain has gathered but $60,000,000,000 in five hun- 
dred years. The United States now owns one-fourth of the world's 
wealth and makes one-third of all modern manufactured products. In 
the great necessities of civilization, such as coal, the motive power of all 
activity; iron, the chief basis of all industry; cotton, the staple foundation 
of all frabrics ; wheat, corn and all the agricultural products that feed man- 
kind, America's supremacy is undisputed. And yet her great natural 
wealth has been scarcely touched. We have a vast domain of three mil- 
lion square miles, literally bursting with latent treasure, still waiting the 
magic of capital and industry to be converted to the practical uses of man- 
kind ; a country rich in soil and climate, in the unharnessed energy of its 
rivers and in all the varied products of the field, the forest and the factory. 
With gratitude for God's bounty, with pride in the splendid productive- 
ness of the past and with confidence in the plenty and prosperity of the 
future, the Republican party declares for the principle that in the de- 
velopment and enjoyment of wealth so great and blessings so benign there 
shall be equal opportunity for all. 

THE REVIVAL OF BUSINESS. 

Nothing so clearly demonstrates the sound basis upon which our com- 
mercial, industrial and agricultural interests are founded, and the necessity 
of promoting their continued welfare through the operation of Republican 
policies, as the recent safe passage of the American people through a 
financial disturbance which, if appearing in the midst of Democratic rule 
or the menace of it, might have equaled the familiar Democratic panics of 
the past. We congratulate the people upon this renewed evidence of 
American supremacy and hail with confidence the signs now manifest of 
a complete restoration of business prosperity in all lines of trade, com- 
merce and manufacturing. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 117" 

RECENT REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION. 

Since the election of William McKinley in 1896, the people of this- 
country have felt anew the wisdom of entrusting to the Republican party 
through decisive majorities, the control and direction of national leg- 
islation. 

The many wise and progressive measures adopted at recent sessions 
of Congress have demonstrated the patriotic resolve of Republican leader- 
ship in the legislative department to keep step in the forward march 
toward better government. 

Notwithstanding the indefensible filibustering of a Democratic 
minority in the House of Representatives during the last session, many 
wholesome and progressive laws were enacted, and we especially commend 
the passage of the emergency currency bill ; the appointment of the na- 
tional monetary commission ; the employer's and Government liability laws ; 
the measures for the greater efficiency of the Army and Navy; the widows' 
pension bill ; the child labor law for the District of Columbia ; the new 
statute for the safety of railroad engineers and firemen, and many other 
acts conserving the public welfare. 

REPUBLICAN PLEDGES FOR THE FUTURE. 
Tariff. 

The Republican party declares unequivocally for a revision of the 
tariff by a special session of Congress immediately following the inaug- 
uration of the next President, and commends the steps already taken to 
this end in the work assigned to the appropriate committees of Congress,, 
which are now investigating the operation and effect of existing schedules. 

In all tariff legislation the true principle of protection is best maintained 
by the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference between the 
cost of production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit 
to American industries. We favor the establishment of maximum and. 
minimum rates to be administered by the President under limitations fixed 
in the law, the maximum to be available to meet discriminations by foreign 
countries against American goods entering their markets, and the 
minimum to represent the normal measure of protection at home; the aim 
and purpose of the Republican policy being not only to preserve, without 
excessive duties, that security against foreign competition to which Amer- 
ican manufacturers, farmers and producers are entitled, but also to main- 
tain the high standard of living of the wage-earners of this country, who 
are the most direct beneficiaries of the protective system. Between the 
United States and the Philippines we believe in a free interchange of 
products with such limitations as to sugar and tobacco as will afford 
adequate protecton to domestic interests. 



118 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

Currency. 

We approve the emergency measures adopted by the Government 
during the recent financial disturbance, and especially commend the pas- 
sage by Congress at the last session of the law designed to protect the 
country from a repetition of such stringency. The Republican party is 
committed to the development of a permanent currency system, respond- 
ing to our greater needs ; and the appointment of the National Monetary 
Commission by the present Congress, which will impartially investigate 
all proposed methods insures the early realization of this purpose. The 
present currency laws have fully justified their adoption, but an expanding 
commerce, a marvelous growth in wealth and population, multiplying 
the centers cf distribution, increasing the demand for the movement of 
crops in the West and South, and entailing periodic changes m monetary 
conditions, disclose the need of a more elastic and adaptable system. 
Such a system must meet the requirements of agriculturists, manufactur- 
ers, merchants and business men generally, must be automatic -in oper- 
ation, minimizing the fluctuations in interest rates, and, above all, must 
be in harmony with that Republican doctrine which insists that every 
dollar shall be based upon, and as good as, gold. 

Postal Savings. 

We favor the establishment of a postal savings bank system for the 
convenience of the people and the encouragement of thrift. 

Trusts. 

The Republican party passed the Sherman Anti-trust law over Dem- 
ocratic opposition, and enforced it after Democratic dereliction. It has 
been a wholesome instrument for good in the hands of a wise and fear- 
less administration. But experience has shown that its effectiveness can 
be strengthened and its real objects better attained by such amendments 
as will give to the Federal Government greater supervision and control 
over, and secure greater publicity in, the management of that class of 
corporations engaged in interstate commerce having power and oppor- 
tunity to effect monopolies. 

Railroads. 

We approve the enactment of the railroad rate law and the vigorous 
enforcement by the present administration of the statutes against rebates 
and discriminations, as a result of which the advantages formerly pos- 
sessed by the large shipper over the small shipper have substantially dis- 
appeared ; and in this connection we commend the appropriation by the 
present Congress to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to thor- 
oughly investigate, and give publicity to, the accounts of interstate rail- 
roads. We believe, however, that the interstate commerce law should be 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 119 

further amended so as to give railroads the right to make and publish 
tariff agreements, subject to the approval of the Commission, but main- 
taining always the principle of competition between naturally competing, 
lines and avoiding the common control of such lines by any means what- 
soever. We favor such national legislation and supervision as will prevent 
the future over-issue of stocks and bonds by interstate carriers. 

Railroad and Government Employees. 

The enactment in constitutional form at the present session of Con- 
gress of the employer's liability law ; the passage and enforcement of the 
safety appliance statutes, as well as the additional protection secured for 
engineers and firemen ; the reduction in the hours of labor of trainmen 
and railroad telegraphers ; the successful exercise of the powers of media- 
tion and arbitration between interstate railroads and their employees, and 
the law making a beginning in the policy of compensation for injured em- 
ployees of the Government, are among the most commendable accomplish- 
ments of the present administration. But there is further work in this 
direction yet to be done, and the Republican party pledges its con'inued 
devotion to every cause that makes for safety and the betterment of condi 
tions among these whose labor contributes so much to the progress and 
welfare of the country. 

Wage Earners Generally. 

The same wise policy which has induced the Republican party to 
maintain protection to American labor ; to establish an eight-hour day in 
the construction of all public works ; to increase the list of employees 
who shall have preferred claims for wages under the bankruptcy laws ; 
to adopt a child labor statute for the District of Columbia ; to direct an 
investigation into the condition of working women and children, and 
later, of employees of telephone and telegraph companies engaged in inter- 
state business ; to appropriate $150,000 at the recent session of Congress 
in order to secure a thorough inquiry into the causes of catastrophies and 
loss of life in the mines ; and to amend and strengthen the law prohibit- 
ing the importation of contract labor, will be pursued in every legitimate 
direction within Federal authority to lighten the burdens and increase the 
opportunity for happiness and advancement of all who toil. The Repub- 
lican party recognizes the special needs of wage-workers generally, for 
their well-being means the well-being of all. But more important than 
all other considerations is that of good citizenship and we especially s + and 
for the needs of every American, whatever his occupation, in his capacity 
as a self-respecting citizen. 

Court Procedure. 

The Republican party will uphold at all times the authority and in- 
tegrity of the courts, State and Federal, and will ever insist that their 



120 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

powers to enforce their process and to protect life, liberty and property 
shall be preserved inviolate. We believe, however, that the rules of pro- 
cedure in the Federal Courts with respect to the issuance of the writ of 
injunction should be more accurately defined by statute, and that no in- 
junction or temporary restraining order should be issued without notice, 
except where irreparable injury would result from delay, in which case 
.a speedy hearing thereafter should be granted. 

The American Farmer. 

Among those whose welfare is as vital to the welfare of the whole 
country as is that of the wage-earner, is the American farmer. The pros- 
perity of the country rests peculiarly upon the prosperity of agriculture. 
The Republican party during the last twelve years has accomplished ex- 
traordinary work in bringing the resources of the National Government to 
the aid of the farmer, not only in advancing agriculture itself, but in in- 
creasing the conveniences of rural life. Free rural mail delivery has been 
established; it now reaches millions of our citizens, and we favor its ex- 
tension until every community in the land receives the full benefits of the 
postal service. We recognize the social and economical advantages of 
good country roads, maintained mere and more largely at public ex- 
pense, and less and less at the expense of the abutting owner. In this 
work we commend the growing practice of State aid, and we approve the 
efforts of the National Agricultural Department by experiments and other- 
wise to make clear to the public the best methods of road construction. 

Rights of the Negro. 

The Republican party has been for more than fifty years the consis- 
tent friend of the American Negro. It gave him freedom and citizenship. 
It wrote into the organic law the declarations that proclaim his civil and 
political rights, and it believes today that his noteworthy progress in intel- 
ligence, industry and good citizenship has earned the respect and encour- 
agement of the nation. We demand equal justice for all men, without 
regard to race or color; we declare once more, and without reservation, 
for the enforcement in letter and spirit of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and 
Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution which were designed for the 
protection and advancement of the negro, and we condemn all devices that 
have for their real aim his disfranchisement for reasons of color alone. 
as unfair, un-American and repugnant to the Supreme law of the land. 

Natural Resources and Waterways. 

We endorse the movement inaugurated by the administration for the 
conservation of natural resources ; we approve all measures to prevent the 
waste of timber ; we commend the work now going on for the reclamation 
of arid lands, and reaffirm the Republican policy of the free distribution of 



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the available areas of the public domain to the landless settler. No obli- 
gation of the future is more insistent and none will result in greater 
blessings to posterity. In line with this splendid undertaking is the further 
duty, equally imperative, to enter upon a systematic improvement upon a 
large and comprehensive plan, just to all portions of the country, of the 
waterways, harbors, and Great Lakes, whose natural adaptability to the 
increasing traffic of the land is one of the greatest gifts of a benign 
Providence. 

The Army and Navy. 

The 60th Congress passed many commendable acts increasing the 
efficiency of the Army and Navy; making the militia of the States an 
integral part of the national establishment ; authorizing joint maneuvers 
of army and militia ; fortifying new naval bases and completing the con- 
struction of coaling stations ; instituting a female nurse corps for naval 
hospitals and ships, and adding two new battleships, ten torpedo boat 
destroyers, three steam colliers, and eight submarines to the strength of 
the Navy. Although at peace with all the world, and secure in the con- 
sciousness that the American people do not desire and will not provoke 
a war with any other country, we nevertheless declare our unalterable de- 
votion to a policy that will keep this Republic ready at all times to defend 
her traditional doctrines, and assure her appropriate part in promoting 
permanent tranquility among the nations. 

Protection of American Citizens Abroad. 

We commend the vigorous efforts made by the administration to pro- 
tect American citizens in foreign lands, and pledge ourselves to insist 
upon the just and equal protection of all our citizens abroad. It is the 
unquestioned duty of the Government to procure for all our citizens, with- 
out distinction, the rights of travel and sojourn in friendly countries,. and' 
we declare ourselves in favor of all proper efforts tending to that end. 

Extension of Foreign Commerce. 

Under the administration of the Republican party the foreign com- 
merce of the United States has experienced a remarkable growth, until 
it has a present annual valuation of approximately three billions of dollars 
and gives employment to a vast amount of labor and capital which would' 
otherwise be idle. It has inaugurated, through the recent visit of the Sec- 
retary of State to South America and Mexico, a new era of Pan-American 
commerce and comity, which is bringing us into closer touch with our 
twenty sister American republics, having a common historical heritage. 
a republican form of government, and offering us a limitless field of legit- 
imate commercial expansion. 



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Arbitration and The Hague Treaties. 

The conspicuous contributions of American statesmanship to the great 
cause of international peace, so signally advanced in the Hague confer- 
ences, are an occasion for just pride and gratification. At the last session 
of the Senate of the United States eleven Hague conventions were ratified, 
establishing the rights of neutrals, laws of war on land, restriction of 
submarine mines, limiting the use of force for the collection of contractual 
debts, governing the opening of hostilities, extending the application of 
Geneva principles and, in many ways, lessening the evils of war and pro- 
moting the peaceful settlement of international controversies. At the same 
session twelve arbitration conventions with great nations were confirmed, 
and extradition, boundary and naturalization treaties of supreme im- 
portance were ratified. We endorse such achievements as. the highest 
duty a people can perform and proclaim the obligation of further strength- 
ening the bonds of friendship and good-will with all the nations of the 
world. 

Merchant Marine. 

We adhere to the Republican doctrine of encouragement to American 
shipping and urge such legislation as will revive the merchant marine 
prestige of the country, so essential to national defense, the enlargement 
of foreign trade and the industrial prosperity of our own people. 

Veterans of the Wars. 

Another Republican policy which must be ever maintained is that of 
generous provision for- those who have fought the country's battles and 
for the widows and orphans of those who have fallen. We commend 
the increase in the widows' pensions made by the present Congress and 
declare for a liberal administration of all pension laws, to the end that 
the people's gratitude may grow deeper as the memories of heroic sac- 
rifice grow more and more sacred with the passing years. 

Civil Service. 

We reaffirm our former declarations that the civil service laws, en- 
acted, extended and enforced by the Republican party, shall continue to 
be maintained and obeyed. 

Public Health. 

We commend the efforts designed to secure greater efficiency in 
National Public Health agencies and favor such legislation as will effect 
this purpose. 

Bureau of Mines and Mining. 

In the interest of the great mineral industries of our country, we 
-earnestly favor the establishment of a Bureau of Mines and Mining. 



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Cuba, Porto Rico, Philippines, and Panama. 

The American Government, in Republican hands, has freed Cuba, 
given peace and protection to Porto Rico and the Philippines under our 
flag, and begun the construction of the Panama Canal. The present con- 
ditions in Cuba vindicate the wisdom of maintaining, between that Re- 
public and this, imperishable bonds of mutual interest, and the hope is 
now expressed that the Cuban people will soon again be ready to assume 
complete sovereignty over their land. 

In Porto Rico the Government of the United States is meeting loyal 
and patriotic support ; order and prosperity prevail, and the well-being of 
the people is in every respect promoted and conserved. 

We believe that the native inhabitants of Porto Rico should be at 
once collectively made citizens of the United States, and that all others 
properly qualified under existing laws residing in said island should have 
the privilege of becoming naturalized. 

In the Philippines insurrection has been suppressed, law established 
and life and property made secure. Education and practical experience 
are there advancing the capacity of the people for government, and the 
policies of McKinley and Roosevelt are leading the inhabitants step by 
step to an ever-increasing measure of home rule. 

Time has justified the selection of the Panama route for the great 
Isthmian Canal, and events have shown the wisdom of securing authority 
over the zone through which it is to be built. The work is now progressing 
with a rapidity far beyond expectation, and already the realization of the 
hopes of centuries has come within the vision of the near future. 

New Mexico and Arizona. 

We favor the immediate admission of the Territories of New Mexico 
and Arizona as separate States in the Union. 

Centenary of the Birth of Lincoln. 

February 12, 1909, will be the one hundredth anniversary of the birth 
of Abraham Lincoln, an immortal spirit whose fame has brightened with 
the receding years, and whose name stands among the first of those given 
to the world by the great Republic. We recommend that this centennial 
anniversary be celebrated throughout the confines of the nation, by all 
the people thereof; and especially by the public schools, as an exercise to 
stir the patriotism of the youth of the land. 

DEMOCRATIC INCAPACITY FOR GOVERNMENT . 

We call the attention of the American people to the fact that none of 
the great measures here advocated by the Republican party could be en- 
acted, and none of the steps forward here proposed could be taken under 



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a Democratic administration or under one in which party responsibility is 
divided. The continuance of present policies, therefore, absolutely requires 
the continuance in power of that party which believes in them and which 
possesses the capacity to put them into operation. 

i 
FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND 
REPUBLICANISM. 

Beyond all platform declarations there are fundamental differences 
"between the Republican party and its chief opponent which make the one 
worthy and the other unworthy of public trust. 

In history, the difference between Democracy and Republicanism is 
that the one stood for debased currency, the other for honest currency; 
the one for free silver, the other for sound money ; the one for free 
trade, the other for protection ; the one for the contraction of American 
influence, the other for its expansion ; the one has been forced to abandon 
every position taken on the great issues before the people, the other has 
"held and vindicated all. 

In experience, the difference between Democracy and Republicanism 
is that one means adversity, while the other means prosperity : one 
-means low wages, the other means high ; one means doubt and debt, the 
other means confidence and thrift. 

In principle, the difference between Democracy and Repulicanism is 
that one stands for vacillation and timidity in government, the other 
for strength and purpose ; one stands for obstruction, the other for con- 
struction ; one promises, the other performs ; one finds fault, the other 
'finds work. 

The present tendencies of the two parties are even more marked 
-by inherent differences. The trend of Democracy is toward socialism, 
while the Republican party stands for a wise and regulated individualism. 
Socialism would destroy wealth. Republicanism would prevent its abuse. 
Socialism would give to each an equal right to take ; Republicanism would 
give to each an equal right to earn. Socialism would offer an equality of 
-possession which would soon leave no one anything to possess ; Repub- 
licanism would give equality of opportunity which would assure to each 
"his share of a constantly increasing sum of possessions. In line with this 
tendency the Democratic party of today believes in Government owner- 
ship, while the Republican party believes in Government regulation. Ulti- 
mately Democracy would have the nation own the people, while Repub- 
licanism would have the people own the nation. 

Upon this platform of principles of purposes, reaffirming our ad- 
herence to every Republican doctrine proclaimed since the birth of the 
party, we go before the country, asking the support not only of those who 
"have acted with us heretofore, but of all our fellow-citizens who. regard- 
less of past political differences, unite in the desire to maintain the policies, 



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perpetuate the blessings and make secure the achievements of a greater 
America. 

Mr. Albert J. Hopkins, of Illinois. — Mr. Chairman, I move the 
previous question on the adoption of the report just read. A minority- 
report will be presented by the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Cooper.) 

The demand for the previous question was seconded by Kansas, Ohio, 
and Minnesota, and the previous question was ordered. 

The Permanent Chairman. — There is forty minutes for debate, 
twenty minutes in behalf of the majority report and twenty minutes in 
behalf of the minority report. The gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hop- 
kins) will have charge of the time on behalf of the majority and the 
gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Cooper) on behalf of the minority. 

MINORITY REPORT ON RESOLUTIONS. 

Mr. Henry Allen Cooper, of Wisconsin, proceeded to read the views 
of the minority of the Committee on Resolutions, as follows: 

The minority of the Committee on Resolutions being unable to agree 
with those parts of the majority report which deal with the subjects of 
the tariff, trusts and combinations, the railroads, and injunctions and 
trials in contempt cases, respectfully submit and recommend the adoption 
of the following as substitutes therefor : 

THE RAILROADS. 

The Republican party has made progress toward a more effective con- 
trol of the railroads engaged in interstate commerce, but it recognizes 
that much remains to be done in the public interest. We favor enlarging 
the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission, clothing it with 
authority to institute proceedings upon its own motion, to establish clas- 
sification, and, whenever a proposed increase in rate is challenged by 
shipper or consumer, to determine whether such increase shall be allowed. 
The problems submitted to the Commission are so vast and complex, the 
demand for a better supervision of interstate commerce in the public 
interest so urgent, the work of the Commission already so burdensome 
that it is manifestly absurd to expect seven men to discharge the duty 
which Government owes to the people in exercising control over 
common carriers engaged in interstate commerce. In response to the de- 
mand for a better supervision of railway services and railway rates, we 
favor enlarging the working force of the Commission, dividing the country 
into districts, providing subcommissions for each district and for appeals 
from such subcommissions to the Interstate Commerce Commission at 
Washington. 

The existing law provides that rates shall be reasonable and that any 
unreasonable rate shall be unlawful, but i f wholly fails to provide any 
meanc by which the Interstate Commerce Commission can ascertain what 



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is a reasonable rate. To this obvious defect may be charged the unwar- 
ranted advance in rates made since the enactment of the law and the 
increase recently announced by the railroads which will impose an addi- 
tional burden of a hundred million dollars a year upon the traffic af- 
fected. The public interest demands that this defect in the law should 
be remedied at once. To determine a reasonable rate it is vital that the 
Commission should know the value of the physical property of the railway 
company, the cost of maintenance and operation of the railway, and the 
income derived from the business. The Interstate Commerce law 
provides for ascertaining the cost of maintenance and operation, and 
the income derived from the business, but it wkholly fails to provide 
any means by which the Commission can ascertain the value of the 
property of the railway company. The Interstate Commerce Commission 
has repeatedly urged upon Congress the importance of legislation author- 
izing the valuation of railway property and making the necessary appro- 
priation to enable the Commission to perform this important work in the 
public interest. We therefore favor the immediate enactment of a law 
authorizing the Interstate Commerce Commission to make an exact and' 
complete inventory of all the physical property of every railroad company 
engaged in interstate commerce, to the end that such valuation be made 
the basis of just and reasonable railway rates. 

THE TARIFF. 

The Republican party proclaims its continued loyalty to the true 
principle of the protective tariff policy, as established by Hamilton, and 
advocated by Clay, Blaine and McKinley. Under this true principle of 
protection such duties were imposed on imports as equaled the difference 
between the cost of production at home and abroad. From Hamilton to- 
McKinley every great advocate of protection contended that a tariff so 
levied would establish and maintain American industries, and that free 
competition between producers would prevent monopoly, and insure 
reasonable prices to all American consumers. Under this system, so long 
as competition existed, all classes shared in the benefits derived from the 
protective policy. But a great change has come. Through combinations 
of corporations, competition between protected interests has been sup- 
pressed, and the public compelled to pay prices dictated by monopoly. 
This condition is unjust, oppressive and intolerable. It calls for prompt 
and effective remedy. No tariff policy which contributes in any degree 
to place the control of prices and markets under the domination of 
monopoly, can be maintained. 

To correct these abuses and perpetuate a protective tariff system, 
based upon the true principle, we pledge the Republican party to the im- 
mediate revision of the tariff by the imposition of such duties only, as 
will equal the difference between the cost of production at home and 



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•abroad. And whenever the control of any protected product, by monopoly 
or the suppression of competition by agreement between the producers 
of protected articles, limits production and controls prices and wages, the 
collection of duties upon the similar imported article shall be suspended 
or abolished and such articles admitted free of duty, except where the 
cost of labor in the domestic article .exceeds that in the imported article, 
in which case such articles shall be subject to a rate of duty equal to the 
difference between the cost of labor in the domestic and in the imported 
article, and no more. 

To ultimately place our tariff schedules upon a just, scientific and 
more suitable basis, there must be a thorough, exact and impartial in- 
vestigation of the ever-changing conditions affecting labor and the cost 
of production at home and abroad. For this purpose we favor the early 
establishment of a permanent tariff commission, to be appointed by the 
President. Such commission to be composed of men from civil life who 
represent all sections of the country and who are especially equipped by 
draining and experience for this important work. 

TRUSTS AND COMBINATIONS. 

For twenty years, in its national platforms, the Republican party has 
denounced trusts and combinations organized and conducted to suppress 
competition and restrain trade. In its platform for 1900 it said: 

"We recognize the necessity and propriety of the honest co-operation 
of capital to meet new business conditions and especially to extend our 
rapidly increasing foreign trade, but we condemn all conspiracies and com- 
binations intended to restrict business, to create monopolies, to limit production 
or to control prices; and favor such legislation as will effectively restrain and 
prevent all such abuses, protect and promote competition and secure the 
rights of producers, laborers, and all who are engaged in industry and 
commerce." 

No additional legislation has been enacted pursuant to that declar- 
ation. It is established upon the highest authority that trusts and combi- 
nations have, within the last four years, made the greatest growth for the 
•centralized control of business and the suppression of competition in the 
entire history of consolidation. The increase in trust capitalization and 
consolidation of industrials, franchise and transportation, alone, aggre- 
gates more than 55 per cent. The trust controlled capitalization increased 
from $20,379,162,511 on January 1st, 1904. to $81,672.1(50.754 January 1st, 
1908. This enormous growth in unlawful combinations places in jeopardy 
every independent business' in the land. It exercises control over produc- 
tion and prices in manufactures and over services and rates in transporta- 
tion. No political party loyal to public interest can ignore this monstrous 
evil. The administration of President Roosevelt has in notable instances 
prosecuted such unlawful combinations under the anti-trust law of 1890 
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by the public. But we believe that existing conditions command at this- 
time more strongly than in 1900 the enactment of such legislation as will 
effectively restrain and prevent all such abuses and promote competition. 
The Republican party represented in this National Convention de- 
mands the most rigid enforcement of existing law and the enactment of 
a statute prohibiting any individual, co-partnership, corporation or asso- 
ciation from engaging in interstate commerce whenever such individual,, 
co-partnership, corporation or association is a party to any agreement, 
understanding or compact for the suppression of competition, the control: 
of prices and markets and the restraint of trade, and imposing imprison- 
ment as a penalty for violation of its provisions. And we demand that 
Congress shall go to the full extent of its constitutional authority to give 
force and effect, by statutory enactment, to the declarations herein set 
forth. We strongly protest against any attempt, however disguised, to 
weaken or destroy the Sherman anti-trust law as applied to trusts and 
combinations organized to control production and prices and we favor 
strengthening the law, providing imprisonment as a penalty for violation 
and a strict enforcement of all its provisions. The anti-trust law was 
not designed by its author or advocates in Congress when enacted to apply 
to labor organizations, and we favor any legislation which Congress may 
enact within the Constitution to exempt trades unions from the statute. 

And the minority of said committee further respectfully submit and 
recommend the adoption of the following paragraphs to be added to the 
report of the majority of said committee: 

ELECTION OF UNITED STATES SENATORS BY DIRECT VOTE. 

The people of this country demand that government shall be truly 
representative. The legislatures of twenty-seven States, nineteen of them 
represented by Republican Senators in the United States Senate, have 
adopted joint resolutions favoring a constitutional amendment for the 
election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. The 
House of Representatives has five times, the last time by unanimous vote, 
adopted and transmitted to the Senate, a resolution proposing such a con- 
stitutional amendment. The Senate refuses to permit a vote upon the 
passage of such a resolution. Washington declared in his farewell ad- 
dress that : "The basis of our political system is the right of the people 
to make and alter their constitutions of government." To deny or with- 
hold that right is destructive of the basic principle of a republican form 
of government. Believing with Abraham Lincoln that this should be in 
truth, a "government of the people, by the people, for the people," we 
demand that Congress shall, upon the convening of the next session, pro- 
pose for the ratification of the legislatures of the several States, an 
amendment to the Constitution providing for the election of United States 
Senator.'; by direct vote of the people. 



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PUBLICITY OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND 
EXPENDITURES. 

Certain expenses are inseparable from the conduct of political cam- 
paigns, and these expenditures may be met by voluntary contributions 
from citizens devoted to the cause for which a candidate or party stands. 
Experience has shown, however, that the largest contributions are not 
made to further a cause, but, in some special or personal interest, cor- 
ruptly to influence nominations., platforms, administrations and legislation. 
If these contributions were known they would be promptly condemned by 
the public, the relation of them to subsequent favors sought in return 
would be recognized and understood, and their purposes thwarted. 

Therefore we propose that a Republican Congress and President shall 
enact and enforce a law to require those charged with the management of 
campaigns for the nomination or election of President, United States 
Senator or Representative in Congress, to publish at stated times during 
the campaign the name of each contributor and the amount contributed 
or promised by him and the amount and purpose of each disbursement 
and the name of the person to whom paid. 

REGULATION OF TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE RATES AND 

SERVICES. 

We pledge the Republican party to the enactment of a law to regulate 
the rates and services of telegraph and telephone companies engaged in 
the transmission of messages between the States. 

SHIP SUBSIDIES. 

We are unalterably opposed to ship subsidies and to granting privi- 
leges in any form to special interests at the public expense. 

INJUNCTIONS AND TRIALS IN CONTEMPT CASES. 

We pledge the Republican party to the enactment of a law to pro- 
hibit the issuance of injunctions in cases arising out of labor disputes, 
when such injunctions would not apply when no labor disputes existed, 
and providing that in no case shall an injunction be issued when there 
exists a remedy by the ordinary process of law, — 

Mr. Cooper. — That is practically the law in England today. 

Mr. James A. Martln, of Ohio. — This is not England. 

Mr. Cooper resumed and concluded the reading of the views of the 
minority, as follows: 

And which act shall provide that in the procedure for the punish- 
ment for contempt of court, the party cited for contempt shall be en- 
titled to a trial by jury except when such contempt was committed in 



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the actual presence of the court or so near thereto as to interfere with 
the proper adminstration of justice. 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. 

We pledge the Republican party to the enactment of a law creating 
a Department of Labor separate from any existing department with a 
Secretary at its head having a seat in the President's cabinet and for 
the creation of a Bureau of Mines and Mining under the proposed De- 
partment of Labor, and the appropriation of sufficient funds to thor- 
oughly investigate the causes of mine disaster, so that laws and regula- 
tions may be recommended and enacted which will prevent the terrible 
maiming and loss of life. 

PROTECTION TO EMPLOYEES. 

We pledge the Republican party to the enactment of an amendment 
extending the existing eight hour law to all government employees and 
to all workers, whether employed by contractors or subcontractors doing- 
work for or on behalf of the Federal Government ; and 

We pledge the Republican party to the enactment of a law by Con- 
gress as far as the Federal jurisdiction extends, for a general employers' 
liability act for injury to body or loss of life of employees. 
!; Respectfully submitted, 

• Henry Allen Cooper. 

Mr. Louis N. Hammerling, of Pennsylvania, addressed the Chair. 

The Permanent Chairman. — For what purpose does the gentleman 
rise,? 

Mr. Hammerling. — I want to know how many committeemen signed 
that report. 

Mr. Albert J. Hopkins, of Illinois. — I will tell you that when we 
get to the debate. 

Mr. Henry Allen Cooper, of Wisconsin. — I was the only man, 
gentlemen of the Convention, on the Committee on Resolutions who 
signed that report. I am not ashamed of it now nor will I ever apolo- 
gize for it to any human being. (Applause.) 

On the question as to how rates shall be levied the Supreme Court 
of the United States said in 169 U. S., page 546: 

' ' "We hold that the basis of all calculations as to the reasonableness of 

rates to be charged by a corporation maintaining a highway under legislative 
sanction must be the fair value of the property being used for the public." 

That is all we ask in the minority plank. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. T31 

"If a railroad corporation has bonded its property for an amount 
that exceeds its- fair value, or if its capitalization is largely fictitious, it 
may not impose upon the public the burden of such increased rates as may be 
required for the purpose of realizing profits upon such excessive valuation 
or fictitious capitalization. . .•" 

. "If a corporation can not maintain such a highway and earn dividends 
for stockholders, it is a misfortune for it and them, which the Constitution 
does not require to be remedied by imposing unjust burdens upon the 
public." ' 



Therefore the minority report declares not only that all fictitious 
capitalization as a basis of rates shall be prevented in the future, but it 
provides that all fictitious capitalization now being used as a basis of 
rates shall be squeezed out of existing capitalization. (Applause.) 

In the State of Wisconsin they have valued the railroad property at 
$25,501 a mile, and in Michigan, $21,396. the average being but $23,231 
a mile. If it is right in Michigan, if it is right in Wisconsin, it is rignt 
if applied to interstate carriers, and the Republican party should so de- 
clare it. (Applause.) 

I have only a very few minutes and I must go on without any at- 
tempt at logical sequence in my argument. I did not know that the time 
was to be so curtailed until I arrived here. 

On the tariff I only have a brief word to read, if the gentlemen 
will pardon me for reading a quotation. 

Andrew Carnegie said in 1884 in an article that was published: 

"We are the creatures of the tariff. If ever the steel manufacturers 
should attempt to control or have any general understanding among them, 
the tariff would not exist one session of Congress. The theory of pro- 
tection is that home competition will reduce the price of the product so it will 
yield only the usual profit. Any understanding among us would simply 
defeat this. There never has been and there never will be any such under- 
standing." 

Gentlemen, a word now about this increase in rates. Let me tell 
you how we of the minority feel — excuse me; I am using the term in 
the editorial sense— (laughter) — I of the minority — for when the 
editor says "we" he always means "I." Take the Chicago Tribune, take 
the Inter-Ocean, the Record-Herald, the News, any great paper in this 
city, of the 16th of last month, one month ago only, and read the pro- 
tests in this city of delegates from fifty commercial organizations, repre- 
senting most of the trade interests of the East and West, against the 
proposed increase in rates by the interstate railroads. Read what was 
said by the chairman of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association, Mr. Fred 
Upham, one of your distinguished citizens. He declared that that meeting 
was one of the most important in the history of the business of the 
country. They protested against it; they wanted it understood that here- 



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after there should be no increase in rates until the Interstate Commerce 
Commission had had an opportunity to pass upon the question. 

We point to the resolutions of fifty important manufacturers' associa- 
tions of the United States representing the best business men in the 
United States, and the majority of them declared in this city that they 
should be consulted before rates are raised. 

Do you know what a railroad rate is? It is essentially a tax, a 
tax because the railroad has a monopoly of transportation, and it is a 
monopoly of a necessity of business life, because no man can do business 
without patronizing the railroads. Therefore he is compelled to pay the 
rates which they fix, and if he makes a business agreement which is to 
be fulfilled six months ahead and based upon existing railroad rates, and 
the transportation companies, before the expiration of that six months, 
increase the railroad rates, then he must lose unjustly upon his contract. 
Therefore it is that the business men of the United States are practically 
a unit in declaring that there should not be permitted any increase of 
railroad rates on interstate traffic until permission to increase such rates 
has been obtained from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The best 
public thought of the United States, the best public thought of business 
men this wide world over, is in favor of that contention. (Applause.) 

Mexico has it today. Other countries around the world, civilized as 
we are, have it. And there is no earthly reason in justice why the 
shippers of the United States should not have it. and why the Republican 
party, which has always been for the people and recognized the immortal 
truth of Abraham Lincoln's saying, "This is a government of the people, 
by the people and for the people" — there is no reason why that party 
whose martyred President first enunciated that great truth should not 
declare now that they wish legislation passed in the interest of the 
business people of the United States of America. (Applause.) 

On the question of the election of United States Senators by the 
people, twenty-seven States have petitioned for it. Five times the House 
of Representatives in Congress has voted for it. But up to this date 
it has never gotten through the upper house. We believe that a people 
as intelligent as the people of the United States, who in a majority of 
the States elect their supreme court justices for long terms, who read 
more than any people ever before known in human history, who think 
more, who discuss more public questions in the private schools, in the 
district schools, at the hearthstone, everywhere within the confines of the 
Republic, are entitled to elect by direct vote every man who goes to 
Washington to make a law for them. (Applause.) I can not understand 
how any man whose record is clean can possibly be afraid to trust the 
most intelligent electorate on this footstool. So it is that the minority 
present this plank. 

As to injunctions we have not a word, we would not for all the 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 133 

world say a word which could by any possibility, by anything but the 
most scary and prejudiced and unthinking construction, be construed as 
an attack upon the courts. Nobody in this Convention would tolerate 
for a moment the suggestion of an attack upon the courts. But have 
you forgotten that one of the greatest historians that ever lived, Gibbon, 
in the fourth volume of his history of the Decline and Fall of the Roman 
Empire, said, "The discretion of the judge is the beginning of tyranny." 

We hold that they should have every discretion consonant with the 
principles of human liberty, and so we say this only, that if a contempt 
is committed in the presence of the court, let the court send the offender 
to jail. If it is committed so near the court or anywhere in the vicinity 
of the court that it interferes with the administration of justice, then 
let the court deal with the offender. 

The best minds in England have practically endorsed this legisla- 
tion, and they say that an injunction is in effect a statute law; it has 
just as much power over an individual as the power of a statute. If 
it is violated, he is punished as if he was a criminal because he is sent 
to jail for violation of the order. Now, if the facts are plain to the 
court, if the act is committed in the presence of the court or in the 
immediate vicinity of the court, so that the administration of justice is 
interfered with, then the court can punish. But suppose the acts occur 
two or three or ten or forty miles away, and a lot of hired private 
detectives swear that those men did these acts or committed this viola- 
tion, then we want to have the facts determined by an absolutely impartial 
tribunal. It can harm nobody, and it points, as the Republican party 
has always pointed in its platforms toward the preservation of personal 
liberty. (Applause.) 

The Permanent Chairman. — The gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Cooper) yields two minutes to his colleague from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Ekern). 

Mr. Herman L. Ekern, of Wisconsin. — Mr. Chairman and Gentle- 
men of the Convention, the fact that the power to issue injunctions has 
been abused is not denied. The plank reported by the majority in the 
present instance does not propose to change the existing law. It seems 
to proceed upon exactly the contrary supposition from that — that lawyers 
and judges are supposed to know the law, but that it shall not be stated 
in the statutes. How will that improve it ? We protest against any such 
plank. Better strike it out altogether. Give the people real relief or 
give them nothing. 

I want to read to you the protest of the Brotherhood of Locomotive 
Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomoive Firemen and Enginemen, and 
the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, which has been submitted to Mr. 
Houser of our delegation : 



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"BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS. 
"BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN AND ENGINEMEN. 
"BROTHERHOOD OF RAILROAD TRAINMEN. 

"H. R. FULLER, 
"National Legislative Representative." 

"CHICAGO, ILL., JUNE 18, 1908. 
"HON. W. L. HOUSER, 

"Wisconsin Delegation. 

"DEAR SIR: 

"By authority of, and on behalf of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and E'nginemen, and Brotherhood of Railroad 
Trainmen, having a membership of two hundred and thirty thousand employes, 
engaged in railroad service, many of whom are Republicans, I wish to hereby most 
respectfully express the disapproval of these organizations of the Anti-Injunction 
Plank, agreed upon by the Committee on Resolutions of the Republican National 
Convention, for the reason that we believe it not only simply endorses existing law 
regarding the question of notice, but that in it is contained a declaration against trial 
by jury. 

"Therefore, we would prefer that the platform contain no declaration on 
the subject rather than this proposed plank, and it is our hope that it will not be 
adopted. 

"H. R. FULLER, 
"National Legislative Representative." 

Now, gentlemen, the right of trial by jury is sacred and is con- 
sidered so by every loyal Republican. There is not any difference be- 
tween punishing a man without trial by jury for the violation of a 
criminal statute and punishing a man without trial by jury for the viola- 
tion of an injunction when the offense is not committed in the presence 
of a court or so as to obstruct the administration of justice. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The gentleman's time has expired. 

Mr. Ekern. — I thank you, gentlemen. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Cooper) yields his remaining two minutes to the gentleman from Wis- 
consin (Mr. Lockney). 

Mr. Henry L. Lockney, of Wisconsin. — Gentlemen of the Convention, 
do you imagine today that this minority platform in its declaration upon 
railways is radical ? We in Wisconsin make this prediction : That 
four years from now you will think it is conservative. It is truly 
conservative because it is based upon unalterable fact. We have the 
same identical system in Wisconsin. It is working well. It satisfies the 
railway managers, it satisfies the public, because the shipper knows that 
there is a place where he can go to get exact determination upon every 
controversy over a rate; because the railway manager knows that he 
is not subject to the whims of every legislature on, every rate. Both 
sides are satisfied. 

Railway securities in Wisconsin are more saleable because we have 
that kind of a rate commission law there. And what makes it? It is 
because the commission has power to determine the fundamental basis 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 135 

of a rate — that is the actual value of the property that is being used 
in performing the public service; and nothing short of that can furnish 
a basis upon which to found a certain reasonable rate. That is what 
we are coming to in this country at large as well as in every State on 
State rates. The Interstate Commerce Commission has asked for it 
repeatedly. The shippers of this country, when they realize its import- 
ance, as they are beginning to — 

The Permanent Chairman. — The gentleman's time has expired. 

Mr Lockney. — Mr. Chairman, I ask for a roll call by States. 

Mr. Albert J. Hopkins, of Illinois. — Gentlemen of the Convention, 
I am not going to make a speech. I desire to call your attention to the 
fact that this Convention selected fifty-three members from the body of 
the Convention, one from each delegation, to prepare a declaration of 
principles. The report that I have read to this Convention embodies the 
work of fifty-two of the fifty-three members of that committee. (Ap- 
plause.) In our deliberations every plank that has been offered by the 
gentleman from Wisconsin was considered by the committee. Everything 
that is Republican in any one of those planks is already adopted in the 
majority report. (Applause.) We rejected in those planks that have 
been offered by the gentleman from Wisconsin the doctrines of socialism 
embodied in them. (Applause.) Now, gentlemen, the question for you 
to determine is whether you will stand by the report of the majority, 
or whether you will take the Socialist-Democratic utterances of Wiscon- 
sin. (Applause.) 

The Permanent Chairman. — The question is on agreeing to the 
views of the minority of the Committee on Resolutions, proposed as a 
substitute for certain parts of the report of the Committee on Resolutions, 
On that question the State of Wisconsin demands a call of the States. Is 
there a second? 

The demand was seconded by Mr. Coe I. Crawford, on behalf of 
the State of South Dakota. 

Mr. J. Frank Hanly, of Indiana. — Mr. Chairman, I ask that so 
much of the minority report as refers to the publication of campaign 
expenses be submitted for a separate vote. That is the privilege of 
any man on this floor. 

The Permanent Chairman. — Governor Hanly of Indiana, asks that 
a separate vote be taken on the amendment providing for the publication 
of campaign expenses. (Cries of "no"). It is the undoubted right of 
any delegate or any delegation to demand that the question be divided. 
Mr. Cooper, of Wisconsin. — Wisconsin seconds the demand. 
The Permanent Chairman. — There is no need of a second. The 
question is on agreeing to the other amendments offered by. the gentle- 
man from Wisconsin. On that Wisconsin demands a roll call. Is the 
demand seconded? 

Mr. Cooper, of Wisconsin. — A parliamentary inquiry. 



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Mr. Coe I. Crawford, of South Dakota. — South Dakota seconds it ; 
and I demand a separate vote on the proposition to ascertain the physical 
valuation of railroads. 

The Permanent Chairman. — A roll call is demanded, and the de- 
mand is seconded, on the question of agreeing to the amendments of the 
gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Cooper), excepting the amendment re- 
lating to campaign expenses and the amendment relating to the physical 
valuation of railroads, upon which separate votes will be taken. 

Mr. George L. Sheldon, of Nebraska. — Mr. Chairman, I also wish 
to demand a separate vote on that section referring to the election of 
United States Senators. 

Mr Sereno E. Payne, of New York. — I have not had time to read 
the rules of the Convention, and I desire to know whether a motion 
would be in order at this point to lay the minority report upon the 
table without carrying the main question. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Chair thinks that a motion to 
lay on the table can not now be made. The clerk will call the roll on 
the question of agreeing to the amendments of the gentleman from Wis- 
consin (Mr. Cooper), omitting the three which have been excepted. 

Mr. Seth Low, of New York. — I ask that the amendments may be 
read so that we may know what we are voting on. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The amendments have all been read. 
The Secretary will call the roll. 

The roll having been called, the result was announced — yeas 28, 
navs 952, as follows : 



States, ■ Number of Votes 

Territories, Etc. in Convention. 

Alabama 22 

Arkansas 18 

California 20 

Colorado 10 

Connecticut 14 

Delaware 6 

Florida 10 

Georgia 26 

Idaho G 

Illinois 54 

Indiana 30 

Iowa 26 

Kansas 20 

Kentucky 26 

Louisiana 18 

Maine 12 

Maryland 16 

Massachusetts 32 

Michigan 28 

Minnesota • 22 

Mississippi 20 

Missouri 36 



Yeas. 



Nays 
22 
18 
20 
10 
14 
6 
10 
26 
6 
54 
30 
26 
20 
26 
18 
12 
16 
32 
28 
22 
20 
36 



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States, Number of Votes 

Terr.tories, Etc. in Convention. 

Montana 6 

Nebraska ••• 16 

Nevada 6 

New Hampshire 8 

New Jersey 24 

New York 78 

North Carolina 24 

North Dakota 8 

Ohio 46 

Oklahoma 14 

Oregon 8 

Pennsylvania 68 

Rhode Island 8 

South Carolina 18 

South Dakota 8 

Tennessee 24 

Texas 36 

Utah 6 

Vermont 8 

Virginia 24 

Washington 10 

West Virginia 14 

Wisconsin 26 

Wyomin g 6 

Alaska 2 

Arizona 2 

District of Columbia 2 

Hawaii 2 

New Mexico 2 

Philippine Islands 2 

Porto Rico 2 



Yeas. 



Mays. 

6 
16 

6 

8 

23 
78 
24 



24 



Totals 980 



23 



952 



So Mr. Cooper's amendments unreserved for separate votes were 
rejected. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The question is on agreeing to the 
amendment submitted by the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Cooper), 
relating to campaign contributions. 

Mr. J. Frank Hanly, of Indiana. — Upon that I demand a call of 
the roll. 

The demand was seconded by Wisconsin. 

Mr. J. Sloat Fassett, of New York. — Mr. Chairman — 

The Permanent Chairman. — For what purpose does the gentleman 
from New York rise? 

Mr. Fassett. — I rise to ask that this particular amendment may 
"be read by the clerk before the roll call is commenced. I understand 
it is the publicity plank. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Secretary will read the amend- 
ment as requested if there be no objection. 



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Several delegates objected. 

The Permanent Chairman. — Objection is made. The Secretary 
will call the roll. 

The roll having been called, the result was announced — yeas 94, 
nays 880, as follows: 



States, 
Territories, 



Etc 



Number of Votes 
in Convention. 



Yeas. 



Alabama 22 

Arkansas 18 

California 20 

Colorado 10 

Connecticut J 4 



Delaware 6 

Florida 10 

Georgia 26 

Idaho 6 

Illinois 51 

Indiana 30 

Iowa 26 

Kansas 20 

Kentucky 26 

Louisiana 18 

Maine 12 

Maryland 16 

Massachusetts 32 

Michigan 28 

Minnesota 22 

Mississippi 20 

Missouri 36 

Montana 6 

Nebraska '. 16 

Nevada 6 

New Hampshire S 

New Jersey 24 

New York 78 

North Carolina 24 

North Dakota 8 

Ohio 46 

Oklahoma 14 

Oregon 8 

Pennsylvania 68 

Rhode Island 8 

South Carolina 18 

South Dakota 8 

Tennessee 24 

Texas 36 

Utah 6 

Vermont 8 

Virginia _ 24 

Washington 10 

West Virginia 14 

Wisconsin 26 

Wyoming , 6 

Alaska 2 



25 



Nays. 
22 
18 
20 
10 
14 
6 
10 
26 

54 

13 
26 
20 
23 
18 
12 
15 
32 
28 
22 
20 
33 

6 

8 
23 
66 
24 

8 
4<> 
14 

8 
60 

8 
18 

2 
24 
36 



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States, 
Territories, Etc. 

Arizona 2 

District of Columbia 2 

Hawaii 2 

New Mexico 2 

Philippine Islands 2 

Porto Rico 2 



Number of Votes 
in Convention. Yeas. 



Nays. 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 



Totals 980 94 880 

Not voting, New York 6. 

So Mr. Cooper's amendment was rejected. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The question is on agreeing to the 
amendment proposed by the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Cooper), 
relating to the physical valuation of railroads. 

Mr. William Charles Brumder, of Wisconsin. — On that Wisconsin 
demands a call of the roll. 

The Permanent Chairman. — On the pending question Wisconsin 
demands a roll call. Is there a second? 

Mr. Coe I. Crawford, of South Dakota. — On behalf of South Dakota 
I second the demand. 

Mr. Louis Emery, of Pennsylvania. — I second the demand. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The gentleman from Pennsylvania 
does not understand the rule. A delegate can not second the call. A 
State has to do it. 

Mr. Crawford, of South Dakota. — On behalf of the State of South 
Dakota I have seconded the demand. 

The roll having been called, the result was announced — yeas 63, 
navs 917, as follows : 



States, X umber of Votes 

Territories, Etc. in Convention. 

Alabama 22 

Arkansas 18 

California 20 

Colorado 10 

Connecticut 14 

Delaware 6 

Florida 10 

Georgia 26 

Idaho 6 

Illinois : 54 

Indiana 30 

Iowa 26 

Kansas 20 

Kentucky 26 

Louisiana 18 

Maine 12 

Maryland 1« 

Massachusetts 32 



Yeas. 



Nays. 
22 

,. 18 
20 
10 
14 



20 



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States, Number of Votes 

Terr.tories, Etc. in Convention. Yeas. 

Michigan 28 

Minnesota 22 

Mississippi 20 

Missouri 36 

Montana 6 

Nebraska 16 

Nevada 6 

New Hampshire 8 

New Jersey 24 

New York 78 

North Carolina 24 

North Dakota 8 

Ohio 46 

Oklahoma 14 

Oregon 8 

Pennsylvania 68 

Rhode Is'and 8 

South Carolina 18 

South Dakota 8 

Tennessee 24 

Texas 36 

Utah 6 

Vermont 8 

Virginia 24 

Washington 10 

West Virginia 14 

Wisconsin 26 

Wyoming 6 

Alaska 2 

Arizona 2 

District of Columbia 2 

Hawaii 2 

New Mexico 2 

Philippine Islands 2 

Porto Rico 2 

Totals 980 63 



Nays. 



20 



24 

10 
14 
1 
6 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 

817 



So Mr. Cooper's amendment was rejected. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The question is on agreeing to the 
amendment submitted by the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Cooper) r 
providing fcr the election of Senators by direct vote. 

Mr. George L. Sheldon, of Nebraska. — On that, on behalf of Ne- 
braska, I demand a call of the roll. 

Mr. Cooper, of Wisconsin. — Wisconsin seconds the demand. 

The roll having been called, the result was announced — yeas 114, 
nays 866, as follows : 



States, Number of Votes 

Terr'tories, Etc. in Convention. 

Alabama 22 

Arkansas 18 



Yeas. 



Nays. 



18 



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States, Number of Votes 

Territories, Etc. in Convention. Yeas. 

California 20 

Colorado 10 

Connecticut 14 

Delaware 6 

Florida 10 

Georgia 26 

Idaho 6 3 

Illinois 54 1 

Indiana 30 11 

Iowa 26 1 

Kansas 20 

Kentucky 26 2 

Louisiana 18 

Maine 12 

Maryland 16 

Massachusetts 32 

Michigan 28 

Minnesota 22 

Mississippi 20 

Missouri 36 

Montana 6 

Nebraska 16 16 

Nevada 6 

New Hampshire 8 

New Jersey 24 

New York 78 

North Carolina 24 

North Dakota S 

Ohio 46 

Oklahoma 14 14 

Oregon 8 

Pennsylvania 68 13 

Rhode Island 8 

South Carolina 18 

South Dakota 8 

Tennessee 24 

Texas 36 

Utah 6 

Vermont 8 

Virginia 24 

Washington 10 

West Virginia 14 5 

Wisconsin 26 25 

Wyoming 6 

Alaska 2 

Arizona 2 

Dislrict of Columbia 2 

Hawaii 2 1 

New Mexico 2 

Philippine Islands 2 

Porto Rico 2 

Totals 980 114 



Nays, 

20 
10 
14 
6 
10 



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So Mr. Cooper's amendment was rejected. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The question now is on the adoption 
of the report of your Committee on Resolutions. 
The report was agreed to. 

PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The next business in order is the call- 
ing of the roll for the presentation of the names of candidates for the 
office of President of the United States. 

The Secretary proceeded to call the roll. 

Mr. Henry Sherman Boutell, of Illinois (when the State of Illinois 
was called). — Mr. Chairman — 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Chair recognizes the .gentleman 
from Illinois. 

NOMINATING SPEECH OF MR. HENRY S. BOUTELL, OF 

ILLINOIS. 

Mr. Boutell. — Mr. Chairman and Members of the Fourteenth Re- 
publican National Convention : In the name of half a century of Repub- 
lican triumphs, Illinois salutes you and Chicago bids you welcome, to 
prepare for still further triumphs. These are the scenes of the first 
conflicts and the earliest victories of our party. Fifty years ago men 
were listening for the words of the great debate that guided the destiny 
of the nation. In this city, eight and forty years ago. our predecessors, 
as ministers and stewards of the Republican faith, chose their first vic- 
torious leader. Then the hopes and yearnings of the people found ex- 
pression in their call to him who had spoken as never man spake when 
he stirred the conscience of the Nation. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois. 
(Applause.) 

And here it was, two score years ago, that we gave our colors into 
the keeping of the Great Commander, great alike in peace and in war, 
without fear and without reproach, who never knew defeat. For the 
Nation, seeking a man to carry on the work that Lincoln had begun, 
turned her face again to Illinois and called for Grant. (Applause.) 

Within these very walls, only four years since, we named our pres- 
ent matchless leader, who has roused again the conscience of the nation 
as the unvanquished champion of the people, who still holds the people's 
abiding trust — our President, my fellow countrymen, Theodore Roose- 
velt. (Applause.) 

What glorious memories crowd upon us from across the years of 
mighty deeds wrought by the Republican party for freedom and humanity 
under our great chieftains from Lincoln and Grant to McKinley and 
Roosevelt ! Very near us today are the spirits of those leaders of our 
party whose work is finished — Lincoln and Grant, Logan and Oglesby, 




HON. HENRY S. BOUTELL, of Illinois, 
Who Presented the Name of Joseph G. Cannon to the Convention. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 143 

Morton of Indiana, Chandler of Michigan, Sherman of Ohio, Hawley and 
Piatt of Connecticut, Conkling and Arthur, Sumner and Hoar, Blaine and 
Garfield, Harrison and McKinley. (Applause.) What pictures these 
names call np of courage on the field, of eloquence in the forum, of de- 
votion to party, of loyalty to the State ! Of them and their associates 
we may say, as we contemplate the outcome of the principles for which 
they lived, truly, their works do follow them. Through the triumph of 
these principles, now, in the fullness of time, the American flag floats 
over one hundred million people from Porto Rico to Luzon, who live 
in the enjoyment of enlightened freedom sanctified by law. 

Inspired by these memories and encouraged by these reflections, we 
meet to gird ourselves for another combat, and choose another captain. 
Today Illinois once more offers to the party of Lincoln and Grant a 
leader under whom defeat will be impossible and victory will be com- 
plete and glorious all along the line. And nothing less than complete 
victory should be our aim in these deliberations. 

Fellow Republicans, a great responsibility rests upon us ; first, be- 
cause the nominee of this Convention will be the next President of the 
United States, (in this respect we differ from the delegates to all other 
conventions of this year) and secondly, because upon the work of this 
Convention and the nominations which we make will depend the result 
of the election of many Senators and Representatives. When this Con- 
vention adjourns, the country will know who the next President will be, 
(applause) for the enemy will realize that they have to deal with a 
united party, enthusiastic, determined, unconquerable. Whoever our candi- 
date may be. every man in this Convention will be his loyal, his militant 
supporter. (Applause.) Whoever secures the nomination, his friendly 
rivals for the honor will be the first to congratulate him, and when the 
campaign opens they will be the earliest in the fight, the foremost in 
the fray, and the last to leave the field. (Applause.) 

The presidency already is secure, but, gentlemen, we shall not dis- 
charge fully our obligations to those whose commissions we hold if we 
finish the work of this Convention with the sole aim of electing a Presi- 
dent. If we win the presidency and lose the House of Representatives, 
it will be a drawn battle. To lose the Senate would be a national calamity. 
This Government is a government by party. We believe that our prin- 
ciples are right and that a government by the Republican party is for 
the best interests of all the people. The work of this Convention should 
not be bounded by the ambitions of men but should extend to the farthest 
confines of the Nation's greatest good. 

Our party is now, as it always has been, rich in material from 
which to choose our presidential candidate. From among the many 
men who would fill the presidency with credit, it is our duty to select 
the man who best meets all the requirements of that exalted office, 
and who. in addition thereto, through his record and personality, through 



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all his qualities of mind and heart, appeals most strongly to the patriotic 
instincts of the independent American voter. (Applause.) The head of 
our ticket is the leader of our party. He should, therefore, be a man 
who will give the ticket its greatest possible strength and character. His 
personality should be an inspiration in every congressional district ; his 
name a talisman in every election precinct ; his public record expressive 
of the glorious history of our party, and the radiant triumphs of our 
faith. (Applause.) 

In the first place, the nominee of this Convention must be a man 
specially equipped by nature, training, and experience for the performance 
of the duties of the presidential office. The candidate whom Illinois 
presents has risen through native ability and long years of faithful ser- 
vice to the highest position in our national Legislature, the second place 
in the Government in dignity and power. His long service in Congress 
has given him a thorough knowledge of all parts of the country, perfect 
familiarity with the needs of the people, and a keen insight into the 
business of the Government in all its branches. He is the greatest Gov- 
ernment expert on revenues and appropriations, currency, and the national 
debt. For a generation, he has been intimate with the ablest men in 
both parties, and he has that rare wisdom that comes from long experi- 
ence in public life, innumerable conflicts that left no trace of bitterness, 
and constant contact with the great minds of his age. We have had many 
illustrious speakers — Henry Clay, James G. Blaine, John G. Carlisle, 
Thomas B. Reed — any one of whom would have adorned the presidential 
office, but in practical wisdom, knowledge of the needs of the Government, 
and influence with his associates, no one of them equaled Speaker Can- 
non, Illinois' candidate for the presidency. (Applause.) 

The reasons given by his opponents why Speaker Cannon should not 
be President are the very reasons' which commend him for the office. 
Unthinking critics lightly condemn him and his associates in the national 
Legislature for what they have not done. They do not stop to consider 
that while it is the privilege of all citizens to suggest what Congress 
should do, it is the stern duty of that body to appropriate according to 
the revenues and legislate according to the Constitution. (Applause.) 
Speaker Cannon has been censured and abused almost as severely as were 
Washington, Lincoln, and McKinley. And for what? For doing his 
duty. In the face of censure and abuse, he has gone on with unflinch- 
ing courage and joyous serenity doing the right as it was given him 
to see the right, using his influence to stem the tide of wasteful appro- 
priations and to prevent the passage of ill considered measures of doubt- 
ful constitutionality. (Applause.) History will do full justice to Speaker 
Cannon's wisdom and courage, and posterity will extol his virtues. But 
why should we leave this pleasant task to posterity? Why not be just 
and fair ourselves, and forestall the magnanimity of the historians? Why 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 145 

not give to Speaker Cannon now his well-earned reward, so that he, as 
well as posterity, can enjoy it? (Applause.) 

Again, the fierce light that beats upon a presidential candidate will 
disclose in Speaker Cannon's entire official record the dominating influ- 
ence of honesty and sincerity, those rugged traits of character that the 
American people demand in their public servants. It will also show that 
his private life is ennobled by those fireside virtues that endear a great 
statesman to all good men and women of our land. 

The next President will appoint many United States Judges, and, in 
all probability, a majority of the Supreme Court, the last bulwark of 
our national institutions. Speaker Cannon's legal training and high 
regard for the judiciary as an independent, co-ordinate branch of the 
Government give assurance that these appointments will continue to be 
made with an eye single to the maintenance of the lofty standard of 
learning and purity of character that has distinguished our Federal 
Judges in the past. 

Legislation of the highest importance will demand the attention of 
all branches of the Government in the next administration. During re- 
cent years, the people have given their approval to a wide extension of 
the scope of national legislation. The Republican party has promptly 
met the wishes of the people. The President has recommended and 
Congress has passed in the last five years many laws of far-reaching 
importance designed to meet with new remedies conditions that have 
arisen from our rapid industrial development. Each of these laws bears 
the signature of the Speaker, and many of them have the special imprint 
of his wisdom and experience. During the last day of the last session of 
Congress two measures were passed that have received unstinted praise. 
One law makes the United States liable for injuries sustained by laborers 
and other employees of the Government engaged in extra hazardous work. 
The other provides for an emergency currency to move our great crops 
in the South and West. The first is a long delayed measure of simple 
justice; the other a wise financial precaution. Obstructionists in the 
House and Senate nearly defeated both these measures. That they are 
on the statute bocks today is due mainly to the unyielding determination 
and the wise parliamentary generalship of Speaker Cannon. These same 
attributes he will take with him to the presidency. Can we doubt that 
as president he will show the same wisdom in dealing with the legislative 
problems of the future that he has displayed aeain and again as Speaker? 
His executive recommendations will embody the wisdom of a generation 
of legislative experience. 

Speaker Cannon knows the people and sympathizes with them in 
their struggles because his own life has been a constant struggle crowned 
by success. His sympathy for the suffering and oppressed came to him 
naturally by inheritance and early associations. His father, Dr. Cannon, 
vvas a pious Quaker who bore testimony against slavery in North Caro- 



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lina and Indiana with a boldness equal to his piety. He was an early- 
director in that railroad from which the Republican party took all the 
passengers; the road on which men journeyed only one way, from the 
dark underworld of bondage up into the joyous light of freedom, (Ap- 
plause.) It is little wonder that with such a father the son's first cam- 
paign work and first vote should have been for the Great Emancipator. 

Not only does Speaker Cannon know the people, but what is of 
more importance in a presidential candidate, the people know him, and 
those who know him best love him best. His personality is made up 
of those manly traits that attract the admiration of his fellow men. He 
has met in the lists the bravest champions of his day. Sometimes he 
has been the victor ; often the vanquished ; but always he has been cheer- 
ful and stout-hearted, remembering the past and its defeats without resent- 
ment, and facing the future ever with undimmed hope and courage undis- 
mayed. 

His opponents dwell upon his years as a handicap, but with him 
years have brought no signs of age, but only the wisdom of experience 
and its serene philosophy. If he should be elected President next No- 
vember and re-elected in 1912. he would at the end of his second term 
be four years younger than was Gladstone when he made his farewell 
speech as Prime Minister in the House of Commons. Why should not 
the United States have her Grand Old Man! (Applause.) 

No one of this generation has demonstrated so often or so success- 
fully his capacity for attracting the confidence and the affections of his 
fellow citizens. Nineteen times he has been elected to high office by the 
voters of a district that has no superior in the United States for intelli- 
gence and patriotism. Nineteen times the seal of approval has been 
placed upon his character, and his record, by those who know him best. 
Thrice he has been chosen by the representatives of all the people to 
fill the highest legislative office in the land. What living man can give 
like promise of retaining, as presidential candidate, the support of the 
Republicans and attracting the suffrages of the three million first voters 
of the country who can control the coming election? (Applause.) 

Posterity will revere forever the name of Abraham Lincoln, not 
alone because he freed the slaves, but rather because he emancipated his 
countrymen from thraldom to ignoble ideals rn our civil and political 
life. And posterity will honor always the name of Theodore Roosevelt, 
not alone because more than any living man he has lightened the bur- 
dens of the weak, but rather because he has emancipated his country- 
men from thraldom to unworthy ideals in the world of business and 
finance. And the name of Cannon will always be linked with that of 
Roosevelt as the Speaker who stood by the President and helped to 
crystallize his policies into law. To whom could we entrust with greater 
confidence the perfection and extension of these policies in execution of 
the people's will? 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 147^ 

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention, I nominate as the 
^Republican candidate for President of the United States the Speaker of 
the House of Representatives, who cast his first vote for Lincoln, entered 
Congress under Grant and crowned a generation of loyal service as Roose- 
velt's strongest and bravest ally — Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois. (Ap- 
plause.) 

SECONDING SPEECH OF MR. J. W. FORDNEY, OF MICHIGAN. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Chair presents Mr. Fordney, of 
Michigan, who will second the nomination of Mr. Cannon. 

Mr. Joseph W. Fordney, of Michigan. — Mr. Chairman and Gentle- 
men of the Convention, I believe I am entitled to a seat in this Conven- 
tion as a delegate, having been elected twice and instructed three times. 
(Laughter. ) 

Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen of the Convention, I gladly rise to 
support the nomination of the man from Illinois — Hon. Joseph G. 
Cannon. (Applause.) 

Amongst the truly great men of the hour, great financiers, great 
diplomats and great protectionists, none is greater than Uncle Joe. 

He is possessed of the vitality of the wonderful Bismarck; the ability 
of the gladiator Gladstone ; the fascinating originality of the matchless 
rail-splitter, Lincoln ; the genius and diplomacy of the brilliant Blaine ; 
the gentleness of the lamented McKinley ; the firmness of the redoubtable 
Reed, and the strenuousness of that great leader, Theodore Roosevelt. 
(Applause. ) 

For more than a quarter of a century, this man has been a central 
figure in the affairs of the American people. — always in the front of 
the battle, where the fight was thickest, asking and expecting no reward 
except the good-will of his fellowmen. 

His start in life was lowly; his ambitions unconquerable. While his 
progress was slow but sure, yet it has been upward and onward, until 
today he stands untarnished and undaunted, respected and beloved by all 
who know him, and high in the councils of the party he loves. (Ap- 
plause.) With his masterful ability, his invaluable experience, his un- 
wavering loyalty to the principles of the Republican party, he stands 
forth a splendid candidate. (Applause.) 

He may hail from Illinois, but he who fights his party's battles for 
the country's good, is the adopted son of every State, and it is meet that 
these States, in convention assembled, should reward this grizzled hero 
of Illinois, and bestow upon him the honor he so richly deserves. (Ap- 
plause.) 

He has stood as a bulwark in the legislative halls, against lawless 
extravagance, and also against retrograde economy. He has respected 
the intelligent, right-thinking, patriotic sentiment of the country, and has 



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had the courage to ignore the attacks of those who assumed to sweep 
the government from its safe moorings, and he has helped to direct it 
into the channels of the people's best government. (Applause.) 

Like the great Lincoln, he has kept in touch with the people in order 
that the government should not lose its sense of responsibility to the 
people, who really constitute the government. 

He has been in the councils of the nation until he has won that 
verdict usually given to those who have passed from the stage of action — 
an estimable man. 

Gentlemen, with party success uppermost in my mind, I ask you to 
name, as your leader in the coming contest, that great commoner — 
JOSEPH G. CANNON! (Applause.) 

NOMINATING SPEECH OF MR. J. FRANK 'hANLY, OF 
INDIANA. 

Mr. J. Frank Hanly, of Indiana (when the name of Indiana was- 
called). — Mr. Chairman — 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Chair presents Governor Hanly 
of Indiana. 

Mr. J. Frank Hanly, of Indiana. — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen 
of the Convention : A great dominant party long charged with the admin- 
istration of the government of a mighty Nation — a Nation with varied, 
complex and globe-encircling interests — is here assembled through its 
representatives to resubmit its record, restate its faith and select the 
instruments of its will for the. further administration of that government. 

Here all creeds are, all sects, all professions, all occupations. Here 
are the several States and Territories of the Union, and with them the 
islands of the seas, but lately wooed and won to freedom. Here New 
England is come, inspired with the memory of the Mayflower, of Bunker 
Hill and of Faneuil Hall. Here are New York and Pennsylvania, fresh 
from their seats of financial, industrial and commercial power. Here 
Virginia is — Virginia, the "Old Dominion," the "Mother of Presidents." 
Here are the commonwealth? of the Southland, from the Carolinas to 
Texas, land of my mother's birth and of my own oft-returning love, 
with lips eloquent with the story of the new industrial and commercial 
life and moral awakening which has come to them. Here are Ohio, 
Michiran, Wisconsin and Illinois, undaunted champions and defenders 
still of the liberty and education to which the territory from- whose 
bosom they were carved was dedicated by the Great Ordinance adopted 
by the fathers a century and a quarter ago. Here is Iowa with her 
sisters, Minnesota and Nebraska — Iowa, rich beyond compare in soil 
and herds and fields of grain, and in the sturdy fiber and stalwart char- 
acter of her citizenship. Here are Missouri and Kansas, from whose 
minds. the aspirations, the friendships, the prosperity and the common 




HON. J. FRANK HANLY, of Indiana, 

Who ! 'resented the Name of Charles Warren Fa 



banks. 



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interests of the present have blotted forever the bitter memories of the 
past. Here are Colorado and her sisters from the mountains, happy in 
the possession of hidden treasures and of fruitful farms, fresh plucked 
from the grudging grasp of desert sands. Here is California with greet- 
ings from the Golden Gate, sad through her memories of recent loss by 
earthquake and fire, but strong and hopeful still. Here are Oregon and- 
Washington, with dreams of commercial prosperity and power equal to 
that of any in the sisterhood of States, when the mastery of the Pacific 
shall bring to them their own from the vast and populous Orient. Here 
Alaska is, land of forests and of gold. And here are Porto Rico, Hawaii 
and the Philippines, with primers in hand, feeling their way with patient, 
unwavering purpose toward liberty and self-government. All are here, 
and what a galaxy they make ! To call their names is like calling the 
roll of nations and of empires. Yes, you are all here, and with you have 
come the hopes and fears, the prayers and the longings of millions of 
your countrymen. Such an assembly convened for such a purpose could 
not be found elsewhere in all the world. For the moment responsibility 
of government is centered here. The eyes of the Nation are turned this- 
way. One hundred and thirty-two years of history look down upon us. 
The occasion is big with opportunity, not merely for the individual, but 
opportunity for the party, and, let us hope, for the country as well. Here 
destiny itself is come to tarry for a while — destiny not only for him 
whom we shall select for leadership and whom we shall crown with the 
exalted honor of a nomination to the Presidency, but destiny for a great 
political organization whose representatives we are — an organization 
whose progress is already marked by half a century of transcendent serv- 
ice to mankind and of signal achievements in behalf of human progress 
and the rights of men — an organization, Mr. Chairman, through whose 
history run like threads of gold the lives of the unforgetables of a 
masterful people — Lincoln, Morton, Grant, McKinley. Roosevelt — destiny 
for the Republic as well if we do but rise to meet it. (Applause.) 

Into this presence and at this moment Indiana comes — you have 
organized the convention, you have published anew your faith — and now 
she asks you to pause and think before you consummate the final act 
for which you are assembled. Indiana, without whose vote no man save 
one has been elected to the Presidency in fifty years, and he amid excite- 
ment and danger and by the extraordinary, if not unconstitutional, pro- 
cess of a Joint High Commission created by act of Congress — Indiana 
appeals to you not alone in behalf of the gifted, tried and trusted son 
whom she presents for your consisderation, but in her own behalf, in 
behalf of the party whose fortunes she has long and faithfully followed, 
in behalf of the country itself — the country of which she is an import- 
ant integral part. She appeals to you for thoughtful, considerate delibera- 
tion before you put the seal of your approval upon the candidacy of any 
man. The duty and the power of decision lie with the majority of this- 



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convention. That she knows, that she admits, but she begs that majority 
to withhold judgment until she has been heard. The duty to deliberate- 
in such a place and at such a time as this appears to her to be impera- 
tive. She holds the right of free, untrammeled and uncoerced action to 
be the fundamental right of every representative assemblage and she 
believes the deprivation of that right in this assembly will be fraught with 
future peril to the party and danger to the country. She has watched 
with profound concern the tide of enthusiasm that has engulfed you 
and which has seemed to deprive you momentarily of the power of 
thoughtful, deliberative action. She has looked with deep solicitude upon 
what has seemed to her to be a high and arbitrary exercise of power 
having for its purpose the accomplishment of an immediate end, con- 
scious that what you do here will avail you nothing unless your action 
is afterward approved and ratified by the calm judgment of a just and 
thoughtful people. (Applause.) 

New England, Indiana calls to you, and to you, New York, and to 
you, Pennsylvania, and to yon, Virginia, and to you, Kentucky. The 
blood of all is in her veins — of New England Puritan, of New York 
Dutchman, of Pennsylvania Quaker, of Virginia Cavalier, of Kentucky 
Frontiersman. She is akin to all. And in the name and by the ties of 
her common kinship she appeals to all. Are none of you to give con- 
sideration to her appeal? And Ohio, she calls to you and upon you 
she has an especial claim. He whom she presents was born upon your 
soil and nourished at your bosom. Can you forget your own? Can 
the mother deny the child whose character and deeds have brought her 
only honor and distinction? (Applause.) And Illinois, Indiana appeals 
to you for Ohio's son whom she has adopted and whom she has come 
to love as her very own, and reminds you that he is your neighbor and 
your friend, and that he is closely identified with your people, is worthy 
the best traditions of their past, and shares their highest present aspira- 
tions. And Iowa, Indiana calls to you ; thousands of your sons are 
Hoosier bred and born. Her call to you is the call of the mother to her 
child. Filial affection should give you quick and willing ear. Are you, 
too, to deny her claim? And California, Oregon and Washington, In- 
diana has a word for you. Her candidate is, and for twelve years has 
been, keenly alive to the peculiar importance to you of American pre- 
dominance in the Pacific. Given your commission now, he will not for- 
get. And you, Porto Rico and Hawaii and the Philippines, he knows and 
understands your needs. He loves liberty and values it above all things, 
not for himself alone, but for you, and for all men everywhere. (Ap- 
plause.) If he is called to administer government in this land, the pur- 
poses of the gentle, liberty-loving McKinley as to you will find consum- 
mation. The seas will not be wide enough to separate you from his 
thought nor to deprive you of his solicitous care. Indiana calls to all, 
the North, the South, the East, the West. She offers you no mystery, 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 15.1 

no unknown, untried statesman. Twice she herself has given hirn high 
commission and each time at its expiration she found her commission 
unstained. The people of the Nation have once commissioned him. In- 
deed, he now holds their commission. Here in this hall, four years ago, 
the* party put the seal of its approval upon him. Its spokesman then 
declared : "He represents in his personality, in his beliefs, in his public 
service, in his high character, all the splendid record the Republican party 
has made, a man who will typify * * * the highest ambitions and 
the noblest purposes of the Republican party." Other spokesmen of the 
party then said : "He is Presidential caliber" ; "He is a Presidential 
figure of full size." And to him, Elihu Root, the present great Secretary 
of State, speaking for the Republican party of the whole country, in 
notifying him of his nomination for Vice-President, most truthfully said : 
"You have the character and the ability to govern wisely and strongly 
should you become President. Many indeed among our people have 
already turned toward 3011 as a suitable candidate to be elected directly 
to that great office." * * * "The nomination comes to you in accord- 
ance with the best methods and practices of representative government. 
It was the result of long and earnest consideration and discussion by 
the members of the convention. It was not the chance product of an 
excited hour, and it was not upon the demands of any powerful influ- 
ence — political or otherwise — constraining the judgment of the dele- 
gates. It was not made for the purpose of conciliating possible mal- 
contents or of swelling the campaign fund of the party. No bargains 
or intrigues contributed to it. No suppressions of the truth or mis- 
leading of the convention as to your principles and opinions were neces- 
sary to bring it about. It was the deliberate, informed and intelligent 
judgment of the delegates from every State and Territory, and it was 
their unanimous judgment." 

So this man's present high commission came to him. So his honors 
have always come. And so the great honor about to be bestowed by 
you should come to whomsoever it shall fall upon. Indeed, it must come 
so if it is to receive popular approval and have intrinsic value — come 
without "the demand of any powerful influence — political or otherwise — 
constraining the judgment of the delegates;" come without "bargains or 
intrigues ;" come without dictation or coercion by aggregated wealth or 
other high or special influence ; come "by the deliberate, informed and 
intelligent judgment" of the convention. So, and so only, does Indiana 
seek for him whom she presents, this great honor. (Applause.) 

Given second place upon the ticket four years ago, the burden of the 
campaign fell upon him. He did not shrink nor hesitate, but accepted the 
trust and carried the party banner in honor and triumph from sea to sea. 
By temperament and experience he is peculiarly qualified for party leader- 
ship. 

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he leaves it granite. Under him no election has since been lost. In per- 
sonality he is commanding and dignified and yet gracious and genial. He 
values human friendships and holds them ever in grateful memory. 
Always innately wise and far-seeing, his wisdom is strengthened now by 
wide observation and his vision lengthened and clarified by deep exper- 
ience. (Applause.) 

He has the poise of character, the gentle calmness of disposition and 
the confidence born of conscious power. He has clearness of intellect, 
quickness of perception, deliberateness of reason and promptness of de- 
cision, and a breadth of view, a depth of thought and a grasp of condi- 
tions and affairs which fit him for great service in high station. (Ap- 
plause.) 

He has convictions concerning the fundamental principles of right 
and wrong and the great public. questions that vex our people, and he is 
not afraid to stand for them in public and in private. Had he lacked 
either principle or courage he could not have acquired leadership in In- 
diana. Without them her people would never have honored or trusted 
"him. He publicly opposed the free coinage of silver when many of the 
party leaders hesitated and were afraid to speak. Under his leadership 
Indiana Republicans declared for the maintenance of the gold standard 
months before the party spcke at St. Louis. To him and to them defeat 
with honor was preferable to victory at the cost of a debauched currency 
and a ruined national credit. These being morally wrong could not be 
politically right. So he and they believed, and so they said. 

• With equal courage he has led his party in Indiana months since to 
declare for the prompt and effective revision of the tariff immediately 
after the November election, whatever the result of that election shall be, 
to the end that the business interests of the country may not be long 
subjected to uncertainty and that the principle of protection to American 
industries shall be preserved. 

His character is as pure and white as a marble shaft. (Applause.) 
His life, public and private, is as clean and as wholesome as the morning 
light. Imbued with a deep religious sense, he is too conscientious for 
hypocrisy, too scrupulous for dishonesty, too candid for deception. He 
has in marked degree the genius of goodness that characterized McKinley, 
and his home life is typical of the best there is. Across its threshold no 
shadow has ever fallen. He lives in the open — a manly man, an Ameri- 
can gentleman. (Applause.) 

The confidant, adviser and friend of McKinley, he has supported 
the present administration with loyalty and devotion. He stands today 
for the policies that have made it great. He has often said, "There must 
be no backward step." He has the ability and the desire to finish the 
work begun. There is iron enough in his will to give him purpose, and 
granite enough in his character to keep him steadfast. He is worthy the 
party's past, equal to its present, prophetic of its future. He matches even 




HON. HENRY F. COCHEMS, of Wisconsin, 
Who Placed in Nomination Robert M. LaFoIlette. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 153 

up with the best that has been or that will be offered here. We present 
him to you with the profound conviction that if nominated he can be 
elected. He has no entangling alliances. He holds the unshaken con- 
fidence of the financial, the commercial and the industrial interests of the 
Nation. Labor is his friend. Between it and him there are no differences 
to be reconciled, no enmities to be overcome, no chasms to be bridged. 
The Christian citizenship of the country, the countless lovers of the home 
and the fireside, believe in him and will honor him with their votes. He 
lives in a State essential to party success. With him the State is certain. 
Without him it will become a doubtful battlefield. 

It is said "He is conservative," and so he is, and yet withal, progres- 
sive. His sense of right, his judgment, his poise and balance, and not 
his "indiscretions," make him great. As President he will build up and 
not tear down, create and not destroy. There will be no timid doubt, no 
halting fear, no government by impulse. Correction of abuses, the reg- 
ulation of corporations and the punishment of offenders against the law, 
whether individual or corporate, will go on, but they will go on through 
the impartial enforcement of the law and through decisions of the courts 
and not through the headlines of the daily press. With him the "square 
deal" will be transferred from the forum of academic discussion to the- 
field of accomplished fact. His "spear will know no friend." There will' 
be no favorites, no "immunity baths." He believes not only in "govern- 
ment of the people," and "for the people," but in "government by the 
people." (Applause). , 

Mr. Chairman, for these reasons — reasons which seem to her to 
be cogent and abiding — Indiana nominates the Honorable Charles War- 
ren Fairbanks for President of the United States. (Applause). 

Nominate him, and victory will be ours in November. 

I thank you (Applause.) 

SECONDING SPEECH OF MR. CHARLES A. BOOKWALTER, OF 

INDIANA. 

Mr. Bookwalter. — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention : 
We have come to this Convention as Republicans from a State which has 
electoral votes to give to a Republican President, realizing that a per- 
centage, and a large percentage, of those who refuse to listen come from 
States that never in twenty years have done so, and never will in twenty 
years, unless they get a little political courage. (Applause.) We fight in 
our section for supremacy against the common enemy, after settling a 
few family disputes of our own as a preliminary, but I thank my Maker- 
we are always willing to permit the other man to present his case, even 
though we start a little road roller of our own afterward. 

We have -come to this Convention to present a candidate for Pres- 
ident who is no reactionary, but still a conservative. We come to present 



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as a candidate for President a man whose record is such that it is not 
necessary for any element in the party to be outraged by the insertion 
of a plank that will cure the errors in his record on any question. We in 
Indiana believe in the man whose nomination I desire to second, before 
this Convention. 

We believe in him because fourteen years ago, after an uninterrupted 
era of Democratic success in Indiana, Charles W. Fairbanks (applause) 
by his matchless leadership, wrested control of Indiana from the hordes 
of Democracy, and Dan Voorhees and Dave Turpie gave way to Fair- 
banks, Beveridge and Hemenway. (Applause.) That is the reason. 

We have had only four lonesome Democrats in the lower House of 
Congress since Fairbanks took control of the organization in Indiana. 
(Applause.) 

He comes, not as a politician, because our victories have not been 
won through political chicane, but he comes as a great, broad statesman, 
presented to this Convention in the belief that his nomination will not 
only produce for us in Indiana continued victory next November, but 
will bring another glorious triumph to the party to which we all owe 
fealty. (Applause.) 

You, gentlemen, of Ohio, have done us, but we are still Republicans. 
We will carry Indiana if it is in our power. We will fight against you 
here today; we will fight with you tomorrow, if we are compelled to. 
But now I am going to second the longest candidate before this Con- 
vention in the shortest speech. We only ask of you gentlemen calm, de- 
liberate attention to the merits of the candidates. I was on the Com- 
mittee on Credentials, and I blush with shame to think that I did not 
present a minority report, but I did not because I loved the Republican 
party more than I loved any candidate. (Applause.) But from the Re- 
publicans of Indiana we bring you one and all the message that with the 
nomination of Mr. Fairbanks we will put Hoosierdom where it belongs 
beyond question of doubt. With the nomination of your favorite we will 
do our best, and angels could not do more. (Applause.) 

NOMINATING SPEECH OF MR. STEWART L. WOODFORD, OF 

NEW YORK. 

When the State of New York was called, Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, 
of that State, was recognized. 

Mr, Woodford. — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention : 
This is a Republican convention, and we are Republicans. Our job is to 
nominate a winning ticket. And when we go out from this convention 
our business is to elect the ticket, no matter what ticket we nominate. 

This is going to be a hard fight, and any one who tells you that it 
is going to be a walk-over makes a serious mistake. I can speak only for 
the State of New York. You gentlemen will speak and vote for your 




GENERAL STEWART L. WOODFORD, of New York, 
Who Placed in Nomination Charles Evans Hughes. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 155 

separate States. At least one-tenth of the vote of New York is today- 
unattached to any party. New York is not Democratic; New York is 
riot Republican; New York is a doubtful State, and whether we win or 
lose in New York largely depends on what we do here today. (Ap- 
plause.) 

As I said, I do not speak for the other States, but I do believe I 
know New York, and there are just two Republicans who can carry New 
York without the question of a doubt. One of those Republicans is in 
the White House at Washington (applause) and the other is in the 
State House at Albany. (Applause.) 

We have today built a platform. Out of all that platform two 
great central questions come and all the rest form around them. The 
first one is the regulation and control of corporations. (Applause.) 
Governor Hughes has shown in his life and work all that to which the 
Republican platform today pledges our party. The life insurance com- 
panies of the country aggregate and control more than one thousand five 
hundred millions of dollars. There are issued and carried on the lives 
of our people more than 15,000,000 policies. Governor Hughes took this 
enormous aggregate of corporate capital and fought it ; examined it ; and 
controlled it ; and today every insurance corporation is safe ; every policy 
is good, and every company is obeying the law. And wherever over 
this broad land there is a life insurance policy holder there is a friend and 
an advocate of Hughes and a man who will vote for him. 

One thing more : Against the wishes of many of his political asso- 
ciates in New York, he drew our public utilities commission bill. It is 
law. It regulates every public utility corporation. Already in New 
York we have got what our platform pledges us we shall have in the 
nation if we succeed. It is ours by his act. By our vote he is a living 
embodiment of successful corporate management and control. 

There is another great question that confronts us. It is a question of 
right — a question of moral right. It is whether the Constitution shall 
be obeyed or disregarded. We met it yesterday in the attempt to regulate 
the representation of the States. We shall meet it always, wherever Re- 
publicans are gathered, until absolute justice is done. 

Gentlemen, the man who dared, because of the requirements of our 
State constitution, to fight the bosses and the gamblers, who dared to 
stand for the anti-racetrack legislation in New York, were he President, 
would stand for the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, and the whole 
power of the White House would be back of those fundamental laws. 

Gentlemen, you have listened kindly, generously. Forty-eight years 
ago I was permitted to sit in the gallery of the great Lincoln convention 
and saw Lincoln nominated. (Applause.) Today, after forty-eight years, 
I come back to a convention in Chicago. Those years are bright, and are 
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into power. Those years have seen great deeds done for humanity, for 
the right, for the Nation. 

I pray you, gentlemen, that the spirit of Abraham Lincoln may abide 
with this Convention, and that whoever among the young men shall come 
here after fifty years may find our land as free, our flag as proud, our 
record as a party as bright. God keep the old Republican party, and God 
give us victory in the struggle on which we are about to enter. (Ap- 
plause.) 

I now formally present the name of Hon. Charles E. Hughes, of 
New York, as a candidate for the nomination for President of the United 
States. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The clerk will continue the call of the 
roll of the States. 

NOMINATING SPEECH OF MR. THEODORE E. BURTON, OF 

OHIO. 

When the State of Ohio was called, Mr. Theodore E. Burton, of that 
State, was recognized. 

Mr. Burton. — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention : This 
Convention enters upon the grave responsibility of selecting a presidential 
candidate with the serene assurance that the Republican party will con- 
tinue to rule this people. What assembled multitude in any land has ever 
pointed the way to such beneficent results for home and for the progress 
of the whole human race, as the recurring conventions of this grand old 
organization? Yet we do not rely alone upon the record of that which 
it has accomplished. We emphasize, even more, its supreme qualification 
to solve the problems of the present. 

It is especially appropriate that this gathering should be held in the 
marvelous city of Chicago, whence the steel bands of commerce reach out 
in every direction, over plain and river and mountain, to almost boundless 
distance, bringing the richest treasures of a continent to lay them at your 
feet. Here it was that the righteous uprising against slavery and Bour- 
bonism, sprung from the Nation's conscience, raised its first triumphant 
voice when Abraham Lincoln was nominated. And here, again, with 
notes of thunderous acclaim, enraptured throngs greeted the naming of 
Garfield, of Blaine, of Harrison, and of Roosevelt. (Applause.) 

Again Ohio presents a candidate to the National Republican Conven- 
tion. In seven stubbornly contested presidential campaigns, sons of her 
sacred soil have led the embattled Republican hosts to victory. The 
Buckeye State has assuredly contributed her share of statesmen and gen- 
erals for the upbuilding of the Nation. But that of which we are prouder 
still is her stalwart citizenship — the mightiest bulwark of the Republic 
in every commonwealth — made up of America's free yeomen, ever ready 
to respond to the tocsin of alarm in days of peril, or to crush corruption 




HON. THEODORE E. BURTON, of Ohio, 
Who made the Address Placing in Nomination for the Presidency William 

Howard Taft. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 157 

whenever it raises its menacing head. From this citizenship Ohio, in the 
supreme emergency of the Civil War, sent forth more than two hundred 
thousand soldiers for our country's defense, a formidable array easily sur- 
passing in numbers the world-conquering legions of imperial Caesar, and 
^ven larger than any army ever mustered by Britain for the tented field. 
But transcendent above all is the fact that Ohio is one of a matchless 
union of States linked together in everlasting bonds of amity and con- 
stituting an empire wonderful in power and almost immeasurable in 
•extent. Each sovereign State alone would occupy but a subordinate 
place in the great current of the world's events, but when represented by 
•one of forty-six bright stars on a field of stainless blue, every one forms 
part of an emblem of union and of strength more beautiful far than the 
most brilliant constellation in the heavens. (Applause.) 

We welcome the friendly rivalry of candidates from other States — 
from the great Empire State, the Keystone State. Indiana, Illinois, and 
"Wisconsin — forming with Ohio a broad expanse extending in unbroken 
sweep from old ocean to the uppermost bound of the greatest of inland 
seas. Each of these presents a leader among leaders whose achievement* 
and renown are not confined to the narrow limits of a single common- 
wealth. Today with fervid earnestness we wage a contest for the prize. 
Tomorrow, united for the fray and quickened by a common fiery zeal, 
the champions of all the candidates will go forth with mounting en- 
thusiasm to vanquish the foe. (Applause.) 

The most perplexing questions of today arise from the bountiful de- 
velopment of our material wealth. Such a development can scarcely occur 
without the creation of inequalities and dangers to the social fabric. I 
most strenuously deny that the American business man or the American 
•citizen cherishes lower standards than the citizens of any other country. 
The American people are by no means depraved. But by reason of their 
"busy absorption in varied pursuits and of the glamour which attends suc- 
cess in great undertakings, questionable methods have been able to en- 
graft themselves upon the business of the country. Rich rewards have too 
frequently been gained by some who are none too scrupulous. Monopoly, 
dishonesty and fraud have assumed a prominence which calls for the 
earnest attention and condemnation of every man who truly loves the 
Republic. (Applause.) 

Against all these abuses and in the work for restoring old ideals of 
honesty and equality, as well as for higher standards of civic duty, one 
man has stood pre-eminent,' and that man is Theodore Roosevelt. Against 
corruption in every form he has set his face with grim determination, 
prompt and fearless in action and with that intelligent leadershio which 
has assured the establishment of a better era in which the strong and 
the weak alike must submit themselves to the impartial execution of the 
law. There was need of a strong, courgeous spirit to restrain those de- 
structive forces which have asserted themselves in this time of growth 



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•and: plenty. r The. story of his. achievements will make up one of the 
ibrightest pages in the history of this or any age and will prove that 
today,: as in any critical hour of social unrest or of danger, the man wilt 
(appear who can grapple with the emergency. (Applause.) 

Who so fit to take up the tasks which this wondrous generation 
.demands should be wisely and impartially performed as his great War 
Secretary? (Applause.) Since the day when, in Benjamin Harrison's, 
administration, these two first met, — the one as Solicitor General, the 
other as a member of the Civil Service Commission, — they have been 
bound together by like ideals and aims, by close ties of friendship, and 
by the exchange of mutual counsel, each with his own individuality and 
characteristics keeping constantly in view the ennobling vision of a better 
and a greater America. (Applause.) They have not been satisfied that 
the Temple of Prosperity should be decked alone by the jewels of the 
fortunate and the opulent, but have insisted that it should still more 
abound in trophies which commemorate the enforcement of even-handed 
justice and the maintenance of that equal opportunity which spreads hope 
and blessing even to the humblest home. Since the day when, less than 
thirty years of age, Mr. Taft denounced, with burning words, a member 
of his profession who had been guilty of flagrantly vicious practices and 
had demoralized the community, he has ever been associated with the cause 
of true reform- — with that reform which will not content itself with 
academic dissertation or hollow words. He has been imbued with the 
spirit of action. His advocacy of sounder conditions has never arisen 
from a desire for the exploitation of himself. It has always been based 
upon unswerving integrity and the courage to speak the truth, as he 
understands it, on all occasions, no matter how influential or powerful 
the evils which he may attack. (Applause.) 

No one has ever yet assumed the presidential chair who had re- 
ceived a more ideal preparation for the duties of that great office. As 
judge in "State artd Federal courts, as solicitor general, as governor of the 
Philippines, as Secretary of War, which has included the work of colonial 
secretary and director of national public works, he has received his train- 
ing, and has always shown himself master of the situation and competent 
to make more honorable and beloved the American name. (Applause.) 
There have been no years of inaction in his career. He has been con- 
tinuously engaged in weighty tasks and each successive service has been 
characterized by an increasing influence upon most vital questions. 

In our domestic affairs, in whatever position he has held, he has dis- 
played the rare union of judicial temperament with an unsurpassed gift 
for administrative management. To him belongs the extremely valuable 
faculty of eliminating the non-essential- from complicated problems and' 
going directly to their substance. His capacity for work is enormous. 
Yet quite asL'help ful is liis equable temperament, which will not allow the 
annoyances of: life to distract or hamper him. Although of an aggressive 



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personality, he possesses an infinite good nature, a charm of manner and 
a poise which have made him a model for exalted station. In the final 
analysis even the highest officials must be judged as men, and under this 
criterion Secretary Taft is now and will ever be known for his broad 
sympathies with every grade of humanity and as one invariably actuated 
by that democratic spirit which should characterize a progressive Amer- 
ican. (Applause.) And yet no one can for a moment hesitate to rec- 
ognize his severity in dealing with wrong-doing. While no honest enter- 
prise need fear him, no dishonest scheme could hope to hide its face 
from the light or to escape punishment. 

More than any other of our public men he has had to do with our 
outlying dependencies and colonial relations. It was he who took in 
charge the prosecution of that colossal enterprise on the Isthmus, the 
canal uniting the lesser and the greater oceans, and under his directing 
hand the completion of this most stupendous of public works is no longer 
a vague and distant hope, but an imminent reality. (Applause.) With 
his ever-ready skill as a pacificator, he restored tranquility in the fertile 
Island of Cuba, so often distracted by civil strife. In the far-off Philip- 
pines, under a blazing tropical sky, he found a people of many races and 
tribes, degraded by centuries of misrule and oppression ; and there, too, 
he not only established the rule of law and local control in place of con- 
fusion and bloody strife, but showed the way to self-government, and a 
new recognition of the rights of man. (Applause.) For peoples and 
races, like individuals, under the inspiration of a friendly guide, may 
lift their faces heavenward and seek to climb the great world's altar 
stairs to nobler heights of liberty and opportunity. It is to his lasting 
honor that his desire was not to be known as "Taft, the Pro-Consul," 
but as "Taft, the Father of the Filipinos," who brought to them the 
light of modern civilization. (Applause.) 

In the larger sphere of world politics, we are entering into new and 
closer bonds with all the nations of the earth. Who is better qualified 
than he to lead America to her true position in this later day when the 
boundaries established in the centuries past are becoming less ; distinct 
and kingdoms and races are beginning to realize that they have all one 
common destiny? 

Secretary Taft has exceptional familiarity with conditions in the 
distant Orient — in Japan, in China. We may rest assured that- our tra- 
ditional friendship with Japan will continue. Moreover, the future promi- 
ises that the slumbering millions of China will awake from the lethargy 
of ages, and she then will realize that the morning dawn of fresher life 
and wider outlook comes to her across the broad Pacific; from free 
America, her truest friend and helper. We covet no portion of her ter- 
ritory. We desire from her, as from all nations, increased good will and 
that mutual respect which knows neither bluster nor cringing on 'either 
side. Thus in Ihis new era of larger relations, Secretary Taft, ; with his 



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comprehension of national and international subjects, would furnish ai 
certainty of peace and sustained prestige. Under him, at home and every- 
where, this mighty people would have an assured confidence in the secure- 
development and progress of the country and would rest safe in the re- 
liance that a Chief Executive was at the helm who, in peace or in war, 
would guide the destinies of the nation with a strong hand and with a 
gentle, patriotic heart. (Applause.) 

And so today, in the presence of more than ten thousand, and with. 
the inspiring thought of the well-nigh ten thousand times ten thousand 
who dwell within our borders, I nominate for the presidency that perfect 
type of American manhood, that peerless representative of the noblest 
ideals in our national life, William H. Taft, of Ohio. (Applause.) 

SECONDING SPEECH OF MR. GEORGE A. KNIGHT, OF 
CALIFORNIA. 

Mr. Knight. — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention. Not 
many weeks ago when the month of May was young in days it was my 
privilege and pleasure to view one of the most impressive scenes that 
human eyes ever witnessed. Our naval fleet, Columbia's guardian of the 
peace of the seas, had steamed its way from the Atlantic to our Golden- 
Gate and dropped anchors in the beautiful bay of San Francisco, an 
achievement without a mishap and a voyage replete with the lesson of" 
our maritime power. (Applause.) The occasion turned back the pages, 
of half-fcrgotten history and flashed again on the horizon of the sunlit 
sea all of the names of our naval heroes, their deeds of valor, and the 
ships of their command. The panorama of that day will never be for- 
gotten. It will live in type and ever be told in historic. story. 

On the hills that slope toward the Bay, half hidden in banks of golden 
poppies, five hundred thousand people sat as in a great dress circle and- 
witnessed the coming of that most majestic power. The magnificent bay- 
was transformed into a stadium, and as each battleship passed through 
the Golden Gate, maintaining an equality of distance and precision of 
military exactness, all wondered if it could be possible they were human 
and could hear command. Amid the blasts of whistles, the niusic of" 
bands, the cheers of the multitude, and the joyous acclaim of thousands 
who cheered duty performed, Fighting Bob Evans dropped the anchor of 
his flagship, and his active life's work was done. Storm-tanned veteran 
of the sea, you passed the ensign of command to the next in line, and* 
another page in history is honored by your name. (Applause.) 

From that imposing picture of beauty and instructive power I came 
here to stand today in this Republican Convention, the forum where the 
history of our nation should be ever new. The click of the telegraph and 
the descriptive type of a progressive press will bring to the homes of 
America the scenes that you witness today and the work done for our 



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country's future. Here in this great amphitheatre the Republican Party 
is in counsel with itself. Its work is to shape and fashion uniform pro- 
cedure for the future peace and well-being of one hundred million souls, 
for we will be that number before what we do here today will become 
written history. (Applause.) 

This assemblage is impressive beyond the power of words and its re- 
sponsibilities are beyond the comprehension of any people, save the Amer- 
ican. 

Four years ago in this Coliseum we met and nominated our candidate 
for President. His strong individuality, unimpeachable integrity, and rec- 
ognized ability made him the popular idol of the people, and the in- 
vincible leader. He has directed the course of our country through 
troubled waters as variable as human action and thought. His admin- 
istration has been as vivid and meteoric as the firing on Fort Sumter, 
and yet it has done as much for the stability of our Government as the 
plenteous products of the mill, farm and mine. Today we are to choose 
his successor with voices and hearts in unison with praises of the hour. 
(Applause.) 

Is this the same Republican party that never sacrificed a principle for 
popular favor and never surrendered to any opposing force through fear 
of defeat ; that in storm and sunshine fought the good fight for personal 
liberty and the continuance of a permanent Union founded upon the Con- 
stitution, the best and only one ever written by free men who had 
won that liberty on the field of awful war; that believes in the equal and 
uniform execution of all laws, regardless of class, creed or social condi- 
tion, and guarantees to every man under the flag all the rights and privi- 
leges he inherits as an American? Is it the same party that placed the 
name of Lincoln with that of Washington and found no cloud in the high 
heavens of just comparison? 

"The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him : the fir trees 
were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his 
branches; not any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his 
beauty." 

His presence is here today, like the breath of a spring-time morn, and 
the memories of his labors are as fresh as the dew on the hillside flower. 
Yes. yes, a thousand times yes. It is the same old permanent, aggressive 
force that has held the world in awe for near unto a half century and 
put the eternal baptism of man's capabilities for self government beyond 
the danger of national decay. 

And now the time has come for this historic organization again to 
choose an executive whose fitness is up to the high standards of the 
past. It is not often that the occasion calls upon experience to walk the 
path of high official life in true companionship, but forceful circumstance 
writes at this most opportune time the name of William H. Taft as a 
leader of men. ( Applause.) His purity of character, blended with ability 



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and experience, is a trinity of power that makes him a tit successor of 
those who have enriched our history with their patriotic lives. (Ap- 
plause.) I second the nomination of William H. Taft. Collegiate, lawyer, 
judge, diplomat, true American, you are commended and recommended 
as our ideal leader of the host that shall ever be aggressive in the cause 
of individual liberty, for the enforcement of all laws and the great ad- 
vocate of the principles of the party of Union and progress. (Applause.) 
With such a leader we know that "the sceptre shall not depart from " 
Judah * * * until Shiloh come." (Applause.) 

NOMINATING SPEECH OF MR. C. B. M'COY, OF OHIO. 

Mr. McCoy addressed the Chair. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Chair recognizes- Mr. McCoy, of 
Ohio, who will present the name of Senator Foraker. (Applause.) 

Mr. McCoy. — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention. The 
.-gentleman who was to have presented the name of the candidate of our 
•choice having lost his voice last night in enthusiastic hurrahs for his 
•choice and mine, I have been chosen as his humble substitute ; and under 
the circumstances I shall endeavor to win the distinction of making the 
shortest nominating speech of this convention. (Applause.) 

You ask, whence my candidate ? I answer, he comes from the bat- 
tlefield and from the forum of the Republic. On the field of battle he 
-fought to establish the principle that all men are and of right ought to be 
"free and equal ; and in the forum of his country he has sought to main- 
tain that principle. 

The proud old State of Ohio, likewise a mother of presidents, offers 
to you and to the nation another of her illustrious sons, one who as 
•soldier, jurist, governor and senator has added lustre to the fair name 
•of Ohio. (Applause.) 

As a soldier boy he was heroic, brave, unflinching and unfaltering. 
■(Applause.) 

As a judge of the superior court he was learned, profound, studious, 
•deliberate, upright, just. 

As the young governor of a great commonwealth he was gallant, 
. chivalrous, aggressive, progressive, loyal to every trust and always doing 
Ihis duty with his might and main, the idol of his people. (Applause.) 

As a Senator of the United States he has been able, influential, in- 
dependent, fearless, following only the dictates of his own conscience 
and true to his own convictions (applause), daring to do the right ac- 
cording to what he believes to be the right, without regard to the whims 
■of popular favor or the fleeting influences of praise or prejudice. 

Elected Representative to the upper house of Congress from the great 
commonwealth of Ohio, he has conceived it to be his duty to serve the 
people not alone cf that State or any group of States or any particular 




.HON. C. B. M'COY, of Ohio, 
Who Placed in Nomination Joseph P>. loraker. 



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section, or any party, but to aid in enacting legislation to accomplish the 
greatest good for the greatest number of the people of all the States and alt 
sections of our great and common country. (Applause.) 

Possessed of a judicial mind and temperament, among other attributes 
that have made him strong and useful is that of a vast amount of saving- 
sense. He is not too radical to be safe, nor is he too conservative to be. 
progressive. His statesmanship is of the constructive kind. 

For twenty-live years he has been in public life, throughout all of 
which time and until now his record is an open book, challenging the 
careful scrutiny and commanding the admiration of the people of this, 
whole country. 

During this quarter of a century he has been prominent in the coun- 
cils of the Republican party, has conspicuously participated in nearly alt 
of its national conventions, and by his loyalty and wisdom the party has 
profited. (Applause.) And, gentlemen of the convention, whatever may- 
be the result of your deliberations, if your choice may be some one else 
whose name has been or may be presented to this convention, he will be- 
found in the thick of the fight, with all the power of his logic and 
eloquence, supporting the nominee of this convention. (Applause.) 

In the councils of the nation he was the compatriot of those other 
beloved and lamented sons of Ohio, William McKinley and Marcus A. 
Hanna, and was associated with them and others of that school of states- 
men in formulating those great policies of sound governmental principle 
which lifted the country from industrial stagnation and distress to a period-, 
of unparalleled prosperity, the greatest ever known in this country or 
any other. 

Nominate him and elect him, and be assured that those great and 
beneficent principles, those wise policies, will be continued ; nominate him> 
and elect him, and be assured that the honor and dignity that is now and 
always has been maintained in the position of chief executive of this. 
nation will continue to be maintained. (Applause.) 

Gentlemen of the Convention, I have the honor to present for your 
careful and thoughtful consideration the name of that great son of Ohio» 
and of the nation, that brilliant statesman, that intense patriot, the mighty., 
the magnetic Joseph Benson Foraker, of Ohio. (Applause.) 

SECONDING SPEECH OF MR. W. O. EMORY. OF GEORGIA. 

Mr. Emory. — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention : It 
requires no little courage for a black man to stand here in this magnifi- 
cent presence to second the nomination of a man dear — I had almost 
said to our hearts — but I will say to the American heart. 

It is the proudest moment of my life to rise here to second the 
nomination of a man who has endeared himself to the American people 
by a long life of loyal and self-sacrificing service to his country. Born 



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of that sturdy American stock which could not and would not live in the 
State of Kentucky in the presence of the vile and immoral institution of 
human slavery, his parents moved from that State to the wilderness of 
Ohio, where they made for themselves a home in which they could rear 
their children in the atmosphere of freedom. (Applause.) Reared in 
this country home, one of the common yeomanry, enjoying few oppor- 
tunities in early life, he reached his majority just at the time when his 
country needed his services most. 

When our nation's life was threatened, and the immortal Lincoln 
called for defenders of yonder flag, this man whose name I shall soon men- 
tion, then a mere youth, answered the call of his country, and laid his 
life upon its altar. With what fidelity and self-sacrifice he served his 
country the records show. By the strictest attention to duty we see 
him passing from the lower grades of service to the higher and more 
important positions in the military ranks. This is the last opportunity 
we will have to elect a Grand Army Veteran to the Presidency. The 
war over, he enters school ; he educates and prepares himself for the 
great battles that are to be fought out on the forum. We see him on 
the stump and in the legislature of his native State, defending the rights 
of men as men, never faltering and never surrendering ; next in the 
executive chair of his State, doing battle for his party and his country. 
Now in the Senate of the United States, the very Spartan at the gap 
Thermopylae, defending the rights of all the people, high or low, great 
or small; rich or poor, the African, the Anglo-Saxon and all, against the 
assaults of all the Persian hosts, standing firmly upon the doctrine that 
every American citizen has the right when accused of crime to be. tried 
by a jury of his peers, and also that every American citizen, whether 
native born or naturalized, shall have the right to cast one ballot for 
our State and national law makers, and for the administrators of our 
laws, and have it fairly counted. 

Mr. Chairman, the maintenance of these principles is of far more 
importance than the mere matter of material prosperity. For, as Mr. 
Lincoln said, this nation can not live half free and half slave, neither can 
it live with a million and a half of her male citizens robbed by one 
scheme and another of the right to the ballot box and the jury box. 
(Applause.) 

Mr. Chairman, the battles of liberty have not yet all been fought 
out. If, Mr. Chairman, I should stop here a moment to muse ; and should 
call up the spirits of the founders of our Grand Old Party, and the 
heroes of the armies of 1861-65, and ask them what is the first duty that 
we, the younger generation, owe to our party and country, the answer 
would come that we should stand upon the doctrine of equal and exact 
justice before the law for all men, and that the ballot box should be 
open to all whether white or black, rich or poor. (Applause.) 

Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Convention, as I have said, it 




HON. ROBERT S. MURPHY, of Pennsylvania, 
Who Presented the Name of Philander C. Knox. 



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is the proudest moment of my life to be permitted to stand here repre- 
senting ten million people, two million of whom are voters. Whether 
we are permitted just now to exercise that most important right, that 
highest right of American citizens, matters not. We are voters — Am- 
erican voters. I represent this great army of people, ninety per cent of 
whom are Republicans true and tried. They are more than Republicans. 
They are patriots, who love the flag better than they do their lives, as 
a thousand battlefields testify, where their courage has been tested. 

Standing here in this presence, fellow countrymen, I have the honor, 
and I rejoice in the privilege, to say that the hearts of ninety per cent 
of these ten million people beat in unison and sympathy with this mag- 
nificent character, the product of Ohio's soil, this best and most loyal 
son and representative of American manhood. (Applause.) 

Mr. Chairman, we want for President, a man whose life and opinion 
embody all these principles. We want a man who standing on the 
mountain top traces all the victorious steps of our party in the past, 
carrying in his heart the memory of those who have gone before us, and 
who looks forward prepared to meet the dangers to come. We want a 
man who has experience, intelligence, firmness and poise of character, 
who can unite all the warring factions and carry us to victory at the 
polls in November. (Applause.) 

Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Convention, let us be careful 
here today, and see to it that reinforcements that will be absolutely 
necessary to success be not left so far in the rear that we meet our 
Waterloo. It is my deliberate judgment that the man whose nomina- 
tion I am seconding carries in his personality all of the great qualities 
that are necessary to unite in one solid phalanx all our Spartan hosts, 
which shall be able to meet and overcome the Persian hosts that the 
Xerxes of Democracy can bring against us. Mr. Chairman and gentle- 
men of the Convention, I second the nomination of the Hon. Joseph 
Renson Foraker. of Ohio. (Applause.) 

NOMINATING SPEECH OF MR. ROBERT S. MURPHY, OF 

PENNSYLVANIA. 

Mr. Murphy (when the State of Pennsylvania was called) — Mr. 
Chairman — 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Chair recognizes Lieutenant Gov- 
ernor Murphy, of Pennsylvania. 

Mr. Murphy. — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: 
Pennsylvania, proud of her illustrious history and of her loyalty to Re- 
publicanism, comes to present her claims to this, the greatest convention 
of the greatest party ever organized to maintain the rights of man. She 
comes this day with an escutcheon undimmed by a single 3tain in sup- 
port of those principles which have made her and this country great; 



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she comes to remind you that from the beginning she has never wavered 
in the faith, nor faltered by the way; she comes in the full tide of an 
unchanging patriotism and the splendor of material power, freely ac- 
knowledging her obligations to all, and loyally pledging her enthusiastic 
support to whomever may be named by the wisdom of this convention as 
the candidate for President. 

She recalls with pride that upon her soil was witnessed the birth 
of the Republic ; that within her limits sprang into full view of the 
nations of the earth the glorious spirit of independence ; that in every 
crucial contest for the supremacy of this Government her sons have 
borne a distinguished part ; that the memory of those who surrendered 
life that this country might live abides with her forever; that her bat- 
tlefields, sacred to liberty, ever continue as shrines of endurjng worship 
among her people ; that across the horizon of those fields still pass and 
repass in grand review the deathless army of Valley Forge, and rising 
ever before the mind appear the heroic figures of her noble sons, Meade 
and Hancock and Reynolds, crowning the crest of Gettysburg's decisive 
field. (Applause). 

The courage of her people finds its corresponding quality in. the un- 
rivaled development which has made Pennsylvania, in combined aspect, 
the first State in the Union ; aye, the first State in the civilized world. 
The spirit of genius has transformed Nature's Commonwealth into a 
garden of diversified beauty ; her hills and valleys, fragrant with life, 
are resplendent in the fruits and flowers of the soil ; her atmosphere, 
instinct with activity, is reflected in her ringing anvils, in her roaring 
forges, in her smoking furnaces ; in her towering stacks tipped with 
eternal fire ; in her mines teeming with the treasures of earth ; in the 
stirring roll of her morning drum, beating the reveille throughout the 
industrial world ; and, more than all else, in the magnificent army of 
labor, whose mighty arms, uplifted and sustained by Republican prin- 
ciples, make for themselves the finest asset of the Commonwealth. 

Pennsylvania has given to the fullest of her treasures to the Nation; 
and in support of Republican principles, she stands pre-eminent and 
without a peer. In heart and conscience committed to the purpose of 
the party from its birth, it was her undisputed privilege to signalize to 
her Sister States in the crisis of 1860 the election of him who died in 
the fullness of achievement and at the summit of a spotless renown, 
the noblest heritage of any land, the sweetest spirit of any age, Abraham 
Lincoln. (Applause). 

Having blazed the pathway for the first great victory of Repub- 
licanism, she has ever maintained herself at the head of the column, 
against which the forces of the opposition have beaten in vain. In every 
presidential contest of the party she has cast her electoral vote un- 
flinchingly for the Republican candidate, and today, in the spirit of 
justice, this occasion summons the illustrious men, living and dead, to 



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whom that honor was given in witness of her devotion to those policies 
which the magnificence of this country so supremely attests. 

The Nation views with gratification the record of our past. The 
beneficent work of prolonged Republican rule is manifest upon every 
side. The standard of common honesty in governmental and social 
relations has been elevated. The spirit of justice has expanded, and a 
more perfect opportunity for the rights of all men under the law created. 
The animating and absorbing purpose of Republicanism has been to sub- 
serve the interests of the whole people ; to strengthen in the common 
heart a stronger love for higher ideals ; to knit together in closer bonds 
of union the people of the various States ; to unify and advance the 
spirit of nationalism consistent with the highest good and powers of the 
States ; to unite and inspire the citizenship of this great Republic with 
increased devotion to its institutions and a more intense love for that 
flag whose stars and stripes proclaim liberty to mankind. 

Under the impetus of a leadership unequaled we are moving forward 
majestically to a glorious destiny. That leadership stands for freedom 
in political action ; for freedom in education ; for freedom in religion ; 
for freedom of opportunity in industry that will give to every man his 
lawful due. It stands for the conscience and judgment of the country, 
unalterably opposed to despotism in any form, and it stands for an 
enforcement of the Constitution, in accord with precedent and consistent 
with the sacred rights of the humblest and highest among us. 

This is a notable and inspiring year ; it is a year that marks the 
highest progress of the human race ; it is a year when the watchwords of 
the night and day are right and duty; it is a year filled with just aspira- 
tions for the future ; it is a year symbolizing performance and achieve- 
ment in the interest of the whole people, and it is a year upon whose 
pinnacle the Republican party can look back with pride. 

This great period marks the time when undiminished loyalty and 
distinguished service should be honored. The day is at hand when those 
who have been brave and true, who have stood in the forefront of 
battle, should receive the cross of honor. Time with her changing 
conditions, and the mighty issues which have confronted the country, 
have destroyed the significance of the pivotal State and have led to the 
extinction of State lines. The question to be passed upon by this con- 
vention is not whence comes the candidate, but what does he represent? 
Division does not exist in the ranks of Republicans upon a continuation 
of those policies which have raised Republicanism to the high-water mark 
of confidence in the hearts and minds of the people. It is not only con- 
ceded, but the circumstances of the time demand, that the nominee of 
this convention shall be a man who in his life and service represents 
what has been accomplished and guarantees further and more complete 
accomplishment upon the lines laid down. (Applause). 

In the great work done Pennsylvania claims a distinguished part. 



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Standing in the vanguard of moral and political influence, she has 
through the courage and genius of her great son led the way to the 
goal of splendid renown. Undeceived by fog or storm, unshaken by 
an opposition representing the arrogance of power in its most disloyal 
form, he has patriotically stood for the God-given rights of his country- 
men and displayed a statesmanship that will command enduring fame. 
(Applause). 

From the bosom of our great state has come this man who has 
proven his fitness for the high office of President. His mastery in law 
commanded national attention ; his triumphs at the bar summoned him 
into the councils of the Nation; his intellectual greatness appealed to 
the genius of the lamented McKinley and he became the chief officer 
of justice for the whole people; he came into place and position at one 
of the most critical periods in the life of the country. It was a period 
when vital problems affecting every citizen were pressing for solution. 
The situation demanded the highest ability and the most unyielding 
honesty. The spirit of commercial combination in its most nefarious form 
stood entrenched in privilege ; it had transcended the power conferred 
by law ; it had prostituted a legal right for unlawful gain ; it had lar- 
cenously preyed upon industry and labor ; its startling growth involved 
the necessities and liberties of life; it mercilessly seized upon every op- 
portunity to enrich itself at the expense of all; and, feeling assured in 
the control of the State, openly challenged the Federal authority. 

Manifestations of alarm and anger appeared. The American heart 
passionately protested against the threatened destruction of industrial 
freedom ; and a crisis equal, if not surpassing, the great Civil War was 
precipitated. The Republican party had won its way to victory as the 
champion of human rights. In the performance of its mission to humanity 
it destroyed human slavery. In the changing course of events the people, 
in fear of their rights, once again called upon it for deliverance from an 
enslavement more pernicious and destroying to the Nation than that 
to which we had given liberty. Doubt prevailed in the ranks of law- 
givers and statesmen as to the existence of any power in our form of 
government to avert and crush the imminent danger. The conspiracy 
of organized wealth, backed by an array of legal talent unsurpassed, 
defiantly asserted itself above the control of the law. 

Then it was the genius of interpretation saved the day for the 
American people; then it was that the illuminating intellect of the great 
son of Pennsylvania gave a new birth to the Constitution; then was 
first seen under his orderly construction the scope and power of the 
divine instrument. When others paused and declared its provisions 
inadequate to meet the evils which menaced the existence of the Republic, 
he was the man who confidently held to the belief that the Constitution 
was a living instrument and possessed complete power to control and 
regulate the inter-state commerce of the country in the interests of the 



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common good. In the great case of the Northern Securities Company 
the Chief Court of the Nation sustained his judgment; his splendid 
victory marked a new epoch for .justice, and was welcomed by the mil- 
lions of his countrymen as a permanent guarantee of liberty. (Applause). 

Remarkable as it may seem, this great legal triumph is but one cf 
many, no less in importance, marking his official career. His vigilance 
and activity made no pause in the fields white for the harvest. Wherever 
.a great combination conducted operations in disregard of law and the 
people's rights it instantly became at his hands the subject of attack. 
To protect the grain grower of the North and West and maintain free- 
dom in competition he shattered the Grain Trust ; he performed the 
>ame high duty for the cotton grower of the South, when he struck 
down the cotton-carrying pools. In behalf of those who earn their bread 
in the sweat of the brow he drove the sword of Justice into the vitals 
of the Beef Trust. He manifested the same relentless vigor in the pros- 
ecution of those high in position who were guilty of stealing the public 
lands ; he enforced for the protection of the traveling public and the 
rights of the workingman the Safety Appliance law. he reversed the 
action of the English Privy Council and brought back for punishment 
Gaynor and Greene, the two greatest thieves of the century ; in the interest 
of labor he drafted the Employers' Liability bill, and he crowned his 
record in the office of Attorney-General by giving to his country a per- 
fect and unblemished title from the nations of the world to the Panama 
Canal. (Applause). 

Upon this splendid record of triumph in behalf of the people's rights, 
Pennsylvania submits her claims for recognition. That record justifies 
our action in demanding this nomination. In the enforcement of old 
statutes and in the enactment of new laws the safety of this country and 
Republican rule depended upon the distinguished Attorney-General, of 
whom the present Chief Executive said : "We need common sense, hon- 
esty, and resolute courage. We need what he has shown : the character 
that will refuse to be hurried into any unwise or precipitate movement 
by any clamor, whether hysterical or demagogic ; and, on the other 
hand, the character that will refuse to be frightened out of a movement 
by any pressure, still less by any threat, expressed or implied." (Ap- 
plause). 

His intellectual courage illuminated the whole field and unerringly 
pointed the true pathway for the march of those eternal principles of 
right upon which the Federal Government must ever securely rest. 
From his entrance into the Cabinet of William McKinley and throughout 
his brilliant Senatorial career the American people have never been in 
the slightest doubt as to the attitude of Pennsylvania" upon every vital 
■question affecting the public interest. No man in public life and occu- 
pying the post of Senator in the Congress of States has more clearly 
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For the great office of President Pennsylvania offers to this conven- 
tion as a candidate a man of splendid attainments and ripened experi- 
ence; in private and official life without a stain; committed solely' to the 
performance of his duty, and who, by training and education, has be- 
come in the judgment of this country the first 'lawyer of his time, the 
greatest statesman that ever held the office of Attorney-General of the 
United States. One who, following in the footsteps of the great Mar- 
shall, pierced with the vision of genius the obscurity lying between the 
power of the Federal Government and that of the State ; one whose 
intimate knowledge of the checks and balances upon both great powers 
gave to him the power to point the pathway of security to our institu- 
tions ; one who believes that the Constitution shall not be treated like 
the charter of a corporation, whose interpretation is confined to the letter 
of the instrument ; one who realizes that this is a Nation possessing all the 
powers of National sovereignty ; one who believes that the principles 
expressed in the Constitution shall be applied to the changed conditions 
of the National life as the National welfare may require; one whose life 
has been one complete devotion to private and public duty ; one who has 
earned for himself the proudest eulogies at the hands of his countrymen, 
and whose public triumphs in the interest of the people have been crowned 
with every distinction at the hands of his associates. (Applause). 

In the strenuous years that we have lived, no man charged with re- 
sponsibility has ever acquitted himself in high office more acceptably than 
this man. His legal training, his foresight, his marvelous comprehension 
of the powers of government, have added to the luster and the renown 
of the Republic. In the triumphs of the administration of Theodore 
Roosevelt, and they are many, no man has done more in contribution 
than this man, for upon his shoulders fell the success or failure of 
the policies that have made the present administration great. His life 
represents accomplishment ; his life represents things done ; and today 
he stands before the country as the most accomplished man in public life 
in America. Unperturbed by clamor, free of prejudice, devoted to the 
highest interests of the country at large, he constitutes in himself and 
his record the positive guarantee of what the country demands today. 
(Applause). 

The elevation of this man to the Chief Magistracy of the Nation 
counts for confidence, counts for business prosperity. The assurances 
demanded with the hour cannot be given in a higher degree than by his 
selection as your candidate. His qualities of mind and heart appeal to 
his countrymen. In the performance of public trust and in the service 
of his country, a statesman of the highest rank. Gifted with genius and 
backed by a record as proud as any ever accorded to any living man, he 
is the representative of a Commonwealth of seven millions of people 
unsurpassed in intelligence and patriotism, and testifying in his person to 
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the opportunity is here, the hour and the occasion demand that you should 
today honor the great State of Pennsylvania by naming as the candidate 
of this convention for the high office of President our distinguished 
Senator, the Honorable Philander Chase Knox. (Applause). 

SECONDING SPEECH OF MR. JAMES SCARLET, OF 
PENNSYLVANIA. 

Mr. Scarlet. — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention, on 
behalf of the State of Pennsylvania, I come to second the nomination of 
Philander Chase Knox, for the Presidency of these United States. We 
believe that in this broad land, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from 
the Gulf to the Lakes, no worthier successor to Theodore Roosevelt 
•can be found. In praise of Pennsylvania it has been said that she has 
always performed her duty to the fullest measure of her great resources, 
as opportunity presented itself. For forty-seven years she has, with her 
great majorities, honored the sons of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and New 
York, and now today, she presents to this convention her own peerless 
son to claim for him that recognition which her unswerving fidelity and 
his merit demand. Duty, courage, patriotism, learning and wisdom have 
•chosen him as a bright exemplar, and the nominee of this Convention 
will need them all to solve the problem which will confront him as Presi- 
dent of these United States. 

Name Philander C. Knox and public confidence will be restored ; 
name Philander C. Knox and labor's song of gladness will again be heard 
in the workshops and about the hearthstones of the working man: name 
Philander C. Knox, and you will have a captain who will lead the 
Republican hosts to triumphant victory in November next ; name Phil- 
ander C. Knox and you will have a President who will work out to their 
fullest fruition the policies of Theodore Roosevelt ; name Philander C. 
Knox and you will have a pilot who will guide safely the ship of state 
on its mission of happiness and blessing to all mankind. (Applause.) 

Gentlemen. I thank you. 

NOMINATING SPEECH OF MR. HENRY F. COCHEMS, OF 
WISCONSIN. 

Mr. Cochems (when the State of Wisconsin was called). — Mr. Chair- 
man — 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Chair recognizes Mr. Cochems. 
of Wisconsin. 

Mr. Cochems. — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: 
Four years ago the people of the State of Wisconsin sent to the Repub- 
lican National Convention a message and a man. Four years ago that 
message was derided and the man scourged from the temple. Today 



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the man and the message return in triumph. The report of our Resolu- 
tions Committee persuades me that the message has been heard, but 
rather indistinctly. What will you do with the man? Four years ago, 
stigmatized and humiliated though we were, we returned to Wisconsin, 
our loyalty unshaken, and gave to Theodore Roosevelt a hundred thou- 
sand plurality. The black flag and the white are strangers to Wisconsin 
Republicans. (Applause.) 

I hasten to give ready and gracious assent to every tribute which 
has been paid to the candidates so far presented. It is assumed that 
every man who presents himself for this distinguished commission is 
able, is of unimpeachable integrity, and tried in public service. 

Wisconsin offers her candidate to the nation, not because he is 
her favorite son, not because we know him and love him, not because 
of his ability, integrity, and experience alone, but because, in him we 
know there is embodied in ideal poise and balance those other splendid 
elements and attributes which most nearly respond to the requirements 
of the hour and the demands of the people, and which alone qualify for 
leadership in this great national crisis. (Applause.) 

The paramount problem pressing for solution today has no parallel 
in the economic or industrial history of man. In a generation since the 
war of the rebellion we have rushed at a runaway pace from industrial 
freedom to industrial oligarchy. The issue is a domestic, not a foreign 
problem. No fleet around the Horn or trip through the Orient can 
distract the attention of the people from this central truth. It is an 
issue, not of the creation of new wealth, but of the assimilation and dis- 
tribution of wealth now being normally created. The shipping and con- 
suming classes are awake and they demand relief. 

At the close of the Civil War the business of the nation was con- 
ducted essentially by private individuals. In the commercial expansion 
caused by the telegraph, the telephone, the railroad, and the extension 
of banking credits, the necessity for larger aggregate units of capital 
arose and the corporate idea grew. Added to this the established policy 
of the country in order to urge the strenuous advance of railroad build- 
ing and other public service utilities, granted away without compensation 
to the State, not only public franchise rights of measureless value, but 
with them offered huge bonuses to drive them yet more rapidly forward. 
With characteristic impatience we sought to develop the full resources 
of the nation in a single generation. 

The evolution wrought by these new forces alone changed the whole 
face of national economics and industry. Then came the merger, the 
trust, the centralization of competitive forces, until today a comparatively 
few individuals dominate the field of transportation and franchise cor- 
porations, and in the field of industrial corporations nearly every com- 
modity, in the market and in price, is controlled by a single unit of 
capital. Individualism is dead. Competition has ceased to be a vital 



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force. The orbit of a single business often now reaches to the uttermost 
limits of the civilized world. In plain English, business in this republic 
is in the hands of the few. A close community of interest, an alliance 
for offense and defense, has been established which recognizes spheres of 
special territory and influence. This alliance is made a real and living 
thing by means of bank control and the stock market. The necessity of 
a market for corporate securities finds its expression in the stock ex- 
change, where the ignorant and the innocent are washed back and forth 
through the market by those few kings of industry who govern the price 
of securities at will. 

Our failure to revise the tariff has contributed to these conditions. 
(Applause.) Seven years ago McKinley appealed to the party to revise. 
For seven years we have marched through the waters of the Red Sea 
and the waters have been withheld by the hands of a patient suffrage. 
In the wonder change thus wrought we have leaped from the field of 
individualism and competition into the new era of corporate monopoly 
and government regulation. The epoch and the problem are new. The 
responsibility is overwhelming. Today the kings of industry and finance 
stand like sentinels upon every highway of the nation's commerce, in- 
dustry, and wealth distribution, appropriating to themselves what they 
will and yielding to the ninety-nine per cent what they must. In a 
time of profound peace and prosperity we find ourselves in the throes of 
a panic; an army of the idle still march with the empty dinner pail. 
Whether a man or a set of men precipitated that panic, I do not know, 
but whether they did or did not, I declare that no sane man will rise to 
challenge the statement that at their whim or caprice they could precip- 
itate a panic while we are here in the midst of our deliberations, a 
panic which would bring the sting of suffering to every home in this 
republic of eighty million free people. I know, moreover, that when the 
panic was upon us the country looked not to the President and Congress 
for relief, but raised its hands in abject appeal to Mr. Morgan and Mr. 
Rockefeller. 

The end is not yet. The forces which have produced this brutal 
perversion of industry are more actively potential today than in the past. 
The government must regulate, and regulate with an iron hand. In this 
and this alone can we make successful stand against the advent of Social- 
ism. The shipper and the consumer are justly suspicious. They are 
shocked. They will know the reason why. They are sensitive, quick to 
feel and understand, and, unless we meet our responsibilities, sure to 
strike. They will have no more of this stand-pattism and stagnation. 
To meet that temper of the people, which, once aroused, will sweep away 
majorities like the mists of morning, the party must give to them here 
today, not only in its platform but in its candidate, a guarantee of relief, 
if we are to have the joy of another deliverance. (Aoplause.) 

"Rut this problem is deeper than the mere question of dollars and 



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dividends. The special interests early recognized that the value of their 
securities depended upon the control of the agencies of government. 
Favorable action meant appreciation in values, unfavorable action, depre- 
ciation. To control the agencies they must, control the suffrage which 
selects these agencies. Working in close communion, to a common sel- 
fish end, as long as ten years ago they had secured control and assimilated 
the public agencies in the cities, in the State, and in the Federal Gov- 
ernment itself. I declare that this is treason against the fundamentals 
of free Republican government. The sole guarantee that this Government 
will live lies in the collective consciousness of its people that through 
their ballot they are a part of the State itself. In this great truth alone 
-is to be found the living glory of American manhood and citizenship. 
If the conviction shall ever come that free suffrage is a mockery you 
have created an indifferent and degraded citizenship, a prey to every 
passion and every storm that blows. 

A government founded on a theory of equality of opportunity cannot 
survive when social and economic opportunity has been extinguished. 
We have here a problem in institutional history which looks beyond the 
selfish purpose of the hour and sees with sure perspective and clear 
■vision the rights of generations to come and the future destiny of our 
'common country. 

Ten years ago Wisconsin was as shackled as they are today in most 
-of the States of the Union. The interests controlled the State govern- 
ment completely. They were powerfully entrenched. Led by the Gover- 
nor, two United States Senators, eight out of eleven members of the 
House of Representatives, and a corps of past masters in the political 
-game, they counted in solid rank the State Legislature. State employees, 
--and four thousand Federal employees. Their propaganda was published 
through a united daily press and ninety per cent of the country news- 
papers. Their commissary was largely furnished from the treasury of 
three great railroads, the united public service interests, and the organ- 
ized wealth of the State. The recession of the Populist movement made 
the term "reformer" or '"radical" an obnoxious stigma in our conserva- 
tive State. It was a stubborn soil in which to plant seeds of reform and 
promised a harvest of bitterness and disappointment. None but a man 
of iron soul, none but a man of heroic purpose, would have dared to 
•contemplate the contest against such odds. But Providence had furnished 
us the man; a man who saw clearly and was not afraid. (Applause.) 

You know something of the furious warfare which has gone forward 
in Wisconsin during those years. It was a holy war in the people's 
cause. Year after year, riding the saddle by night and by day, his 
sword was never sheathed. When the way was dark he kept the fires 
lighted upon the hills; when the people wearied, his strong arm was 
:about them. (Applause.) 

Behold the harvest ! In Wisconsin we have a real primary law, 



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truth lives, and the people rule. (Applause.) In Wisconsin our rail- 
roads pay their equitable share of the public burdens. We inaugurated,, 
in the Prudential and Equitable Life suits, the first rebellion against the 
insurance abuses in this country. We have a complete civil service law,. 
and the spoils system has vanished. We regulate our railroads and our 
public service corporations completely in matters of rates and service. 
We have outlawed the legislative lobby. We have abolished the bribery 
of free passes. We determine the selection of our United States Senators 
by popular vote. We have entered upon the conservation of our mines,, 
our forests, and our water powers long before Congress got busy on the 
same subject as to the national domain. Not a property or personal 
right has been unjustly invaded or confiscated. 

But over and above all this, he has builded his genius and his per- 
sonality into every "beam and pillar" of our government, and because 
he has lived political ideals are cleaner and the flag is brighter in Wis- 
consin. (Applause.) These reforms are the labor of his hands. We 
point to the most perfect system of constructive legislation written on 
the books of any State in the union. The Wisconsin idea — the restora- 
tion of government to the people — is today an uplifting force under 
every commonwealth in this republic. 

From the beginning his life and his work have been an expanding 
miracle, marked all the way by the shining towers of truth. Again and 
again, confronted with the alternative of compromise or temporary de- 
feat, he accepted temporary defeat leading to ultimate triumph, believing, 
with Emerson that there is no peace save in the triumph of principles.. 

To those who call him Radical our reply is that the radicals today- 
are the blind, without perspective, who will not see that the demands- 
of conditions have outstripped the relief of legislation, and who obstruct 
the passage of such necessary relief. Our further answer is that no prop- 
aganda was ever announced in his career which has not been justified 
by the course of events, and today in Wisconsin no man asks the repeal 
of a letter of the laws written upon the books through his labor and his 
genius. We have never marched to Moscow, have never struck our 
colors, and we have never sounded a retreat. The meaning of conserva- 
tism has been prostituted to mean stagnation. The country demands a 
progressive conservative, a man who, instructed by the lessons of the 
past, will yet move on and on, planting the flag further and yet further 
forward, until justice shall come into its own and the spirit of American' 
institutions be vindicated: (Applause.) 

If we are to stay the fatal progress of perverse conditions we can- 
not falter, we cannot compromise, we cannot turn back. This is a war,, 
a war in which modern industrialism is on trial and in which the insti- 
tution of private property is being weighed in the balance. In this, 
contest there is no place for the genial and gentle art. or men of peace,, 
for compromise today spells death. In this war the people will have their 



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own leader. They will have no raw recruit, but a veteran, bronzed and 
battered in the conflict. They will have no cadet, but a general, skilled 
not only in regular battle, but who has triumphed over Indian and 
guerrilla warfare ; v/ho cannot be seduced by flattery and smiling promise, 
who knows the proffered hand of Esau, and who will fight on and on 
until predatory wealth has found its Appomattox. (Applause.) 

We offer him here. I have seen him in the fray, with jaw set, his 
eye blazing, his whole figure instinct with indomitable energy for the 
justice of his cause. Man of battle, unparalleled in the history of Am- 
erican politics, fighting the cause of the common people, his sword ring- 
ing upon the armor of his enemy, neither asking nor giving quarter. 
Call him ambitious, call him hypocrite, call him demagogue, all familiar 
words in the vernacular of his enemies, but call him what you will, he 
will live in memory as the most splendid type of fighting citizen which 
this generation has given to the Republic. (Applause.) 

While the battle waged in Wisconsin the national party slumbered. 
Alone in the wilderness this pioneer was blazing the way for the. fijht 
upon- which we have now entered in the nation. In 1904 we brought 
this inspired and lofty message to the national convention. We were 
repudiated and humiliated. Our loyalty remained unshaken and our 
courage was sustained by the rectitude of our great mission. In 1904 
the platform was silent on this issue. In 1904 not a candidate whose 
name has been presented here today had uttered a word or written a 
syllable on the great central propositions which today form the very ark 
of the Republican covenant. Today, in the stress of the campaign, we 
have heard their pronouncements in key notes. They key note of the 
candidate whom we offer is blood of his blood, bone of his bone, and 
written into the record of achievement. His name is his key note. In 
1904 we nominated for President a man of splendid initiative, boundless 
energy, clear political perspective, and militant spirit, who, in the nation, 
has labored to the same great ends. 

I give you the names " of our President and the man who justly 
should be his successor, the names of Theodore Roosevelt and Robert M. 
LaFcllette. (Applause.) 

In his first message to Congress, to the amazement of the special 
interests of the country, Roosevelt declared war in the same cause which 
we had fought, and from that moment the battle cry of the Republican 
party in the nation sounded in harmony with the familiar battle cry 
which for years had thrilled the Badger State and from that day this 
great issue leaped from our commonwealth to compass the entire Union 
of States. ( Ap^larse.) 

Commissioned to the United States Senate, the great work has been 
carried forward. Senator LaFollette has championed among other great 
measures, first, a bill designed to conserve the national resources; second, 
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or maimed in dangerous occupation ; third, a bill to determine the real 
value of the railroads of the country, to the end that the Government 
shall be able adequately to protect the public from railroad extortion in 
matters of rates and service; fourth, a protest against a system of cur- 
rency issue which reposes in the judgment of a political appointee, the 
Comptroller of the Currency, the basis of values upon which American 
dollars are issued and guaranteed by the Government ; fifth, he has 
challenged a leadership in the United States Senate which we believe 
menaces the best interests of the whole country. 

The successor of Theodore Roosevelt should be a man who is neither 
a rampant radical nor a cowardly conservative, but a man strong to under- 
stand, fearless to execute, and just to conserve the honest rights of all. 
He must be a man big enough to comprehend the producers' right of 
protection from the tariff, but who shall never forget the consumers' 
right to protection from extortion; big enough to secure fair rates from 
public service corporations, and yet not foreclose their healthy extension ; 
big enough to extend encouragement to our new possessions but to 
restrain the country from a career of absolute imperialism ; big enough 
to protect honestly acquired wealth, but to destroy industrial piracy. He 
must be a man whose faith in the hewers of wood and drawers of water 
is elemental and profound and who deems their rights to be as sacred as 
the rights of the captain of industry, and not one in whom this sense is 
recently acquired or cultivated. (Applause.) 

We believe that the pioneer in this movement who was good enough 
to break the stubborn soil and plant the seed, is good enough to reap 
the golden harvest and bring it home to the people in its bounty. Through 
all the years Robert M. LaFollette has stood like "a bold mountain about 
whose summits the hurricanes have raved in vain and upon whose base 
the angry waves have beat their surge, unshaken and unshakable." For 
ten years he has carried this war upon the point of his sword, and from 
the li^ht that gleamed from his shining blade was lit the blaze that carried 
forward the war in Wisconsin, fired the heart of Roosevelt, and today, 
like the face of the morniner, is leading the national crusaders along the 
pathway of reform. (Applause.) 

The laborer is worthy of his hire. Wisconsin offers her foremost 
citizen, man of iron with a heart of gold, Robert M. LaFollette. (Ap- 
plause.) 

SECONDING SPEECH OF MR. C. A. A. McGEE, OF WISCONSIN. 

Mr. McGee. — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: 
Every age and generation has its problems. Thef x problems must be 
met when and as they arise. If the great Republican narty, now 
grown glorious in fifty years of national service and national achievement, 
is to meet and solve the burning issues of the hour, it must do so here 
*nd now. not only by platform professions and declarations, but by nom- 



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inating as its standard bearer that man who stands preeminent among: 
the statesmen of his day, the avowed advocate and recognized champion 
of the principles of progressive Republicanism to which this convention 
stands pledged. (Applause.) 

In Lincoln's da} 7 the paramount issue was the Union and human free- 
dom or human slavery. Today the paramount issue is our Republic, the 
life of our democratic institutions, and industrial freedom or industrial 
slavery. 

In each critical period of our nation's history there has come to the 
front a leader signally equipped for the performance of his task, both 
by experience and endowment. From the primeval forests of Virginia 
came the young surveyor who lead the Colonial troops to Victory over 
the hosts of England that he might proclaim to the world that the evolu- 
tion of government had culminated in America. From the log cabin 
of Kentucky came that honest, rugged, stalwart American who rejuvenated 
the world ; cemented the Union ; stamped out the accursed institution of 
slavery and consecrated anew the cause of humanity. (Applause.) From 
the plains of the West, the slope of San Juan Hill and the State House 
at Albany came that prince of patriots — Theodore Roosevelt — who so 
unhesitatingly lifted the burden from the shoulders of our martyred Mc- 
Kinley, and who by reason of his unparalleled fidelity and ability in the 
discharge of the trust imposed, is now recognized as the greatest and 
most respected citizen of the world. (Applause.) From the old Badger 
State comes "Little Bob," that intellectual giant and eminent statesman, 
who with the prescience of genius, with the devotion, the courage and 
patriotism of a Lincoln, with an ability and unswerving purpose of his 
own, was the first to champion those principles which this convention 
has adopted, which the leader of our party — the President of our 
country — has sounded in his patriotic and fearless messages to Con- 
gress as the battle-cry of our Republic, the slogan of our nation. 

What a State has done, the nation may do. The people of the State 
of Wisconsin, discerning in all its hideous nakedness the baneful, arbi- 
trary and tyrannical power of commercial greed, which through the 
medium of bribery, intrigue and corruption, was controlling and manipu- 
lating her legislative and other governmental agencies, turned in her 
battle for emancipation to Robert M. LaFollette, whose services have 
always freely and without stint been given in the cause of his beloved 
State and nation. (Applause.) With a clearness of mental vision, 
soundness of judgment and definiteness of purpose, he realized that no 
reform adequate to cope with the existing abuses could possibly avail 
until the machinery of Government was returned to the hands of the 
people. Without hesitation he struck at the very root of the evil, and 
in one of the most memorable and patriotic political battles ever waged 
in an American commonwealth, he secured the passage of the primary 
election law, giving every man equal opportunity for elective office. Im- 



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imediately he secured the passage of the civil service law, giving every 
man equal opportunity for appointive office. Thus, on the one hand 
.he restored the control of the government to the people and wiped out 
the political machine; and on the other hand, he eliminated the spoils 
system existing through the control and distribution of political patronage. 
(Applause.) 

Next. Mr. La Follette applied himself to the great economic and 
political task of readjusting the relationship between the people and the 
special interests on a fair and equitable basis. To this task he brought 
such spendid constructive ability that the railroad rate commission not 
•only has solved the problem so that the people secure good services 
for the rates paid, but the corporation receives adequate protecLion and 
-a fair rate of interest on its investment; and the highest judicial trib- 
unal in the State has within the month placed its seal of commendation, 
legal and constitutional approval upon the law creating the said com- 
-mission, which today is recognized as the model of its kind and stands 
as a monument to the energy, ability and patriotism of Robert M. La 
Follette. (Applause.) 

Pointing this convention to the record of unparalleled achievements 
written upon the statute books of his own State and incorporated in the 
records of Congress, we ask you, gentlemen of the Convention, to be 
"honest with yourselves, and with all due respect to the other candidates, 
honest with the people of this country, and nominate that man whose 
heart beats in closer sympathy and accord with the needs and demands 
■of the American people than any candidate whose name has been here 
-presented ; that man whose clarion voice for the last decade has resounded 
throughout the Union, championing the cause of representative govern- 
ment and pleading for the control and regulation of public service cor- 
porations in the interest of all the people. (Applause.) 

Wisconsin has presented her candidate, and now in behalf of that 
great body of American freemen who believe that the source of all 
government, in the last analysis, should lie directly and unreservedly in 
the hands of the people ; who believe that governmental agencies should 
"be controlled by the people, and that governmental functions should be 
administered in the interest of all the people, I arise to second the nom- 
ination of that golden hearted gentleman — that fearless, unconquered 
and unconquerable knight, who ever rides to victory in the lists for the 
people — Wisconsin's favorite son, the Nation's eminent patriot — ROBERT 
M. LA FOLLETTE. (Applause.) 

The call of the States was concluded. 

VOTE FOR CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The call of the roll of States has 
been completed. The States, etc., will now be called to ballot for a 
candidate for President. 



180 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

The Secretary proceeded to call the roll. 

Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, of New York (when the State of New 
York was called). — At the request of some of the delegates from New 
York the names of all the delegates from that State must be called. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The clerk will call the roll of the 
delegates from New York, demanded by certain members of that dele- 
gation. 

The roll of delegates from New York was thereupon called, and 
as it proceeded announcement was made as follows : 

Stewart L. Woodford, Hughes; Seth Low, Hughes; Frederick R. 
Hazard, Hughes ; Edward H. Butler, Hughes ; John J. Bartlett, Hughes ; 
Smith Cox, Hughes ; Timothy L. Woodruff, Hughes, William Berri, 
Hughes. 

Mr. Alfred T. Hobley (when his name was called).. — Under in- 
structions of the Convention which sent me here I vote for Hughes, but 
my personal preference is William H. Taft. 

The Permanent Chairman. — All remarks are out of order. Noth- 
ing is in order but the calling of the roll. 

The Secretary resumed the calling of the roll of the New York: 
delegation, and the responses were as follows : 

Frederic H. Schroeder, Hughes; Rhinehard H. Pfarr (alternate for 
John K. Neal, deceased), Hughes; Ruben L. Haskell, Hughes; Louis H. 
Pounds, Hughes ; James P. Connell, Hughes ; William M. Calder, Hughes ; 
Alfred E. Vass, Hughes; Michael J. Dady, Hughes; Jacob Brenner, 
Hughes; Thomas A. Brainiff, Hughes; Joseph T. Hackett, Hughes; 
Charles H. Murra}', Taft ; Joseph Levenson, Taft ; Thomas Rothman, Sr.. 
Hughes; Samuel S. Koenig, Hughes; Ezra P. Prentize, Hughes; Charles 

B. Page, Hughes ; Chauncey M. Depew, Hughes ; Job E. Hedges, Hughes ; 
Herbert Parsons, Hughes ; Otto T. Bannard, Hughes ; William C. Hecht, 
Hughes ; Theron H. Burden, Hughes ; William Harris Douglas. Hughes ; 
George B. Agnew, Hughes ; Julius M. Mayer, Hughes ; James B. Reynolds, 
Hughes ; William S. Bennet. Hughes ; Alfred R. Page, Hughes ; William 
H. TenEyck, Hughes ; Edward H. Healy, Hughes ; William L. Ward, 
Taft; John E. Andrus, Taft; Benjamin B. Odell, Jr. (Alternate), Can- 
non; T. W. Bradley, Cannon; Louis F. Payn, Taft; R. H. Hunter, Taft; 

C. V. Collins, Hughes ; James S. Parker, Hughes ; William Barnes, Jr., 
Taft ; H. A. Van Voast, Taft ; J. D. Lawrence, Hughes ; Martin Cantine 
(alterrate for Gilbert D. B. Hasbrouck), Hughes; L. N. Littauer Can- 
non; Frederick W. Kavanaugh (alternate for Edgar T. Brackett), 
Hueries; G. R. Malb3 r , Hughes; Charles E. Brush (alternate for Wallace 
T. Foote, Jr.), Hughes; Thomas R. Proctor, Hughes; C. S. Millington, 
Hughes; G. H. Cobb, Hughes; L. W. Mott, Hughes; Francis Hendricks. 
Hun-hes; F. H. Gates. Hughes; Joseph P. Allds (alternate for Thos. C. 
Piatt), Hughes; G. W. Dunn, Hughes; S. E. Payne, Huorhes ; F. W. 
Griffith, Hughes : G. W. Aldridge. Hughes : J. L. Hotchkiss, Hughes ;: 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 181 

J. S. Fassett, Hughes ; M. M. Acker, Hughes ; J. W. Wadsworth, Jr., 
Hughes ; E. A. Washburn, Hughes ; J. Grimm, Jr., Hughes ; Simon 
Seibert, Hughes; Fred Greiner, Hughes; C. H. Timermann, Hughes;. 
A. T. Fancher, Taft; C. E. Jones, Taft. 

Result: Cannon 3, Hughes 65, Taft 10. 

The Secretary resumed the calling of the roll. 

When the announcement of the vote of South Carolina was made — 

Mr. E. H. Deas said : — I challenge the accuracy of the vote as 
cast by the chairman of our delegation, and ask for a poll of the 
delegation. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The gentleman from South Carolina 
demands a poll of the delegation from his State. The Secretary will 
call the roll of delegates from that State. 

The Secretary proceeded to call the roll of the South Carolina 
delegation, and the responses were as follows : 

John G. Capers, Taft; L. W. C. Blalock, Taft; E. H. Deas, Fair- 
banks; T. L. Grant, Taft; C. M. English, Taft; P. T. Richardson, For- 
aker; W. S. Dixon, Taft; J. M. Jones, Taft; Joseph W. Tolbert, For- 
aker; G. C. Williams, Taft; J. D. Adams, Taft; W. T. Smith — 

Mr. Capers. — "Taft." 

Mr. Deas. — W. T. Smith is absent. 

Mr. Capers. — I have his proxy. 

Mr. Deas. — That does not make any difference. 

The Secretary resumed the calling of the roll of the South Carolina; 
delegation, and the responses were as follows : 

Thomas Hester, Taft; J. R. Levy, Fairbanks; J. A. Baxter, Taft;. 
A. D. Webster — 

Mr. Capers. — "Taft." 

Mr. Deas. — Mr. Webster is absent. 

The Secretary resumed the calling of the roll of the South Carolina 
delegation, and the response was as follows : 

W. T. Andrews, Taft. 

Mr. Capers. — The legally elected alternate of W. T. Smith, J. A, 
Bryan, is in the hall. I ask that his name be called. 

The Permanent Chairman.' — Is he an alternate? 

Mr. Capers. — He is an alternate, duly elected. 

The Secretary called the name of J. A. Bryan, and he responded 
"Taft." 

Mr. Deas. — The alternate of W. E. Boykin is present in the person 
of J. W. Satterwhite. I ask that his name be called. 

The Secretary called the name of Mr. Satterwhite, and he responded' 
"Taft," 

The result of the poll of the South Carolina delegation, was an- 
nounced Fairbanks 2, Foraker 2, Taft 13. 



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FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 183 

The Permanent Chairman. — The total number of votes in the Con- 
vention is 980. Nine hundred and seventy-nine have been cast. Joseph 
G. Cannon, of Illinois, has received 58 votes ; Charles W. Fairbanks, of 
Indiana, 40 votes ; Joseph B. Foraker, of Ohio, 16 votes ; Charles E. 
Hughes, of New York, 67 votes; Philander C. Knox, of Pennsylvania, 
68 votes ; Robert M. LaFollette, of Wisconsin, 25 votes ; Theodore Roose- 
velt, of New York, 3 votes, and William Howard Taft, of Ohio, 702 
votes. 

It remains only for me to announce that William Howard Taft, of 
Ohio, is your candidate for the presidency for the term beginning the 
4th of March, 1909. (Applause.) 

Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, of New York. — Mr. Chairman, at the 
request of Governor Hughes, and by the instructions of the united New 
York delegation, I move that the nomination of William H. Taft for 
the Presidency be made unanimous. (Applause.) 

Mr. Boies Penrose, of Pennsylvania. — By the unanimous request of 
the Pennsylvania delegation in this Convention. I second the motion. 
(Applause.) 

Mr. Henry S. Boutell, of Illinois. — At the request of Joseph G. 
Cannon and in accordance with the unanimous wish of the Illinois dele- 
gation, I second the motion to make Mr. Taft's nomination unanimous. 
(Applause.) 

Mr. Albert J. Beveridge, of Indiana. — The Indiana delegation also 
seconds the motion. (Applause.) 

Mr. W. O. Emory, of Georgia. — I rise, sir, on behalf of the Georgia 
delegation and thousands of others of my people to second the motion 
that the nomination of Mr. Taft as the next standard bearer for our 
grand old party be made unanimous; and I predict success. (Applause.) 

Mr. William Charles Brumder, of Wisconsin. — On behalf of every 
member of the Wisconsin delegation I second the motion to make the 
nomination of William H. Taft unanimous. (Applause.) 

Mr. Joseph W. Fordney, of Michigan. — On behalf of the Michigan 
delegation I second the motion to make the nomination of Mr. Taft 
unanimous. (Applause.) 

The Permanent Chairman. — The question is on agreeing to the 
motion to make unanimous the nomination of William Howard Taft as 
our candidate for the Presidency. 

The motion was unanimously agreed to. 

Mr. C. W. Fulton, of Oregon. — I move that the Convention ad- 
journ until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. 

The motion was agreed to; and (at 5 o'clock and 25 minutes p. m.) 
the Convention adjourned until tomorrow, Friday, June 19, 1908, at 10 
o'clock a. m. 



THE FOURTH DAY 

".PRESENTATION OF NAMES OF CANDIDATES FOR VICE 
PRESIDENT — ADDRESS BY MR. WOODRUFF — MR. CAN- 
NON—MR. LODGE AND MR. McCARTER — BALLOT FOR 
AND NOMINATION OF A CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESI- 
DENT—COMMITTEES TO NOTIFY THE NOMINEES — 
RESOLUTIONS — ADJOURNMENT. 

CONVENTION HALL 

The Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois, June 19, 1908. 

The Convention was called to order at 10 o'clock A. M. 
The Permanent Chairman. — Rabbi Tobias Schanfarber, of Chicago, 
■will lead us in prayer. 

PRAYER OF RABBI TOBIAS SCHANFARBER, OF CHICAGO, 

ILLINOIS. 

Rabbi Schanfarber offered the following prayer : 

God of all mankind, Thou who guided the destinies of individuals 
as well as that of nations, in Thine, infinite love hast Thou led the people 
of this mighty commonwealth and hast protected them through all the 
chances and changes of time. May Thine all-seeing eye continue to watch 
over them and to guide them to the goal which Thou hast destined for 
this great and growing nation. Inspire them with the abiding conscious- 
ness that it is "righteousness alone that exalteth a nation." Imbue them 
with the knowledge that in times like these we need strong minds and 
great hearts, men with unbending wills, yet open to conviction, men whom 
the lust of office cannot tempt, men whom the spoils of power and the 
power of spoils cannot buy, men of clean hands and pure hearts, who 
have the fearlessness to stand out against corruption and wrong and 
seek to establish Thy kingdom of heaven on earth. 

We thank Thee, O God and Father, that Thou hast given us such 
a one in the nerson of him whom this great cnnveiVion has nominated 
to be its candidate for President, a man strong of mind and of pure heart, 
of strong will, yet open to conviction, one whom the lust of office cannot 
tempt, one whom the spoils of power and the power of spoils cannot 
buy; one with the courage and the fearlessness to stand out against 
corruption and wrong, and who seeks to establish Thy kingdom of 
"heaven upon earth. 

(184) 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 185> 

May, O God, Thy divine and benign presence inspire the closing hours 
of this convention and guide the thoughts of the delegates here assembled 
in the interest of this great nation, so that they may resolve upon that 
alone which will result in good to the country and in honor and distinc- 
tion to the nation. Teach us to husband our natural material resources, 
but more especially to be watchful of our native spiritual endowments. 
May we live true to the spirit of the Constitution of our country. May 
church and State forever remain separate and no unholy hand seek to 
form an alliance between them and thus turn the tide of civilization- 
and progress backward ! 

May capital and labor come to feel their mutual obligations and to 
see how the one is dependent upon the other, and may neither attempt 
to stir up strife and contention by appealing to the basest passions 
within man and to the lowest class prejudices. May predatory wealth 
give way to wealth honestly gotten and consecrated to the highest and 
noblest uses, and may the aristocracy of plutocracy be replaced by the 
aristocracy of conduct and character. May the shame of the cities depart 
and the "City of Light" appear. May we never grow so apathetic to 
the well being of the nation as to fail to be aroused to the height of a 
righteous indignation at the sight of wrong-doing whether practiced in 
low or high places. Blot out selfishness and personal aggrandizement 
from the hearts of the men whom Thou hast called to serve Thee and 
the nation, and may they always feel that a public office is a public trust. 

May this country ever remain the haven of the persecuted and 
oppressed, and may no man with personal or narrow motives urge the 
closing of our doors against the desirable immigrant coming to these 
shores. May the principle of arbitration become more firmly rooted in 
the hearts of the people, so that war may become a thing more and 
more impossible. May the bonds of amity between nation and nation be 
drawn closer and closer, so that seas will no longer separate or mount- 
ains divide. May at length all racial and religious hatreds pass away 
and all national antipathies be forgotten, and the cords of fraternal 
fellowship bind the nations of the world into one indissoluble tie of 
brotherly love and devoted friendship, so that Thy kingdom may soon 
be established on earth and all mankind live together in peace and har- 
mony. Amen. 

PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES FOR VICE PRESIDENT. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The next business in order is the pre- 
sentation of candidates for Vice President. 

Mr. Chase S. Osborn, of Michigan. — I move that nominating ad- 
dresses for Vice President be limited to ten minutes and that seconding 
addresses be limited to five minutes. 

Mr. J. R. Williams, of Pennsylvania. — I second the motion. 



186 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

The Permanent Chairman. — The question is on agreeing to the 
motion of the gentleman from Michigan that nominating speeches for 
candidates for Vice President be limited to ten minutes and seconding 
speeches to five. 

The motion was agreed to. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Secretary will call the roll of 
States, etc., for the presentation of candidates for the Vice Presidency. 

The Secretary proceeded to call the roll. 

Mr. Henry A. du Pont, of Delaware (when the State of Delaware 
was called). — The State of Delaware yields to New York. 

The Permanent Chairman. — Delaware yields to New York, and 
the Chair recognizes Lieutenant Governor Woodruff, of New York. 

NOMINATING SPEECH OF MR. TIMOTHY L. WOODRUFF, OF 

NEW YORK. 

Mr. Woodruff. — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention : 
Representing the great Empire State, the foremost of the commercial and 
industrial commonwealths of tHe nation, the State which in the politics 
of our common country, my fellow citizens, is the pivotal State of the 
Union, I am not on this platform merely for the purpose of presenting 
for ^our favorable consideration a candidate for the vice presidential 
nomination. 

We, the delegation from the State of New York, consisting of one- 
dozenth of the entire convention, feel that unless you accord to our 
great State, which has unsuccessfully presented to you a candidate for 
President, and is, I understand, the only one of the States which pre- 
sented a candidate for President now presenting to you a candidate for 
Vice President, the second place upon the ticket we will be compelled 
to return to our vast constituency without that essential with which there 
will be no question as to the certainty of success for the ticket. 
(Applause.) 

Let me, my fellow delegates, call to your attention one striking fact. 
No Republican national ticket has ever been defeated with a New York 
man on it, except once, and that was when our opponents were 
wise enough to select a New York Democrat to head the Democratic 
ticket. 

Fortunately we have to present to you as our candidate one who is 
known not only in every portion of our State, but is known and re- 
spected in every congressional district represented in this convention. 
(Applause.) Those who know him and respect him, aye, love him by 
virtue of their association with him are numbered by the number of rep- 
resentatives in Congress which each State has sent there for the past 
twenty-two years, and even in the Democratic districts there will not 




GENERAL POWELL CLAYTON, of Arkansas, 
Member of the Sub-Committee on Arrangements. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 187 

be a man to say aught against him, no matter how deep or bitter may 
be his partisan prejudice. 

This candidate of ours has been in Congress, as I say, practically 
for twenty-two years. Elected in 1886, it is but fair to say that he was 
beaten for Congress in 1890. To that Congress there were elected only 
about ninety Republicans, and there was a Democratic majority of about 
150. He was not the only Republican who went to defeat in that fatal 
year. Another gentleman of Ohio was he who, surmounting the disaster 
of that year, overcame all the malign influences of that defeat and rose 
quickly to the governorship of that State and then to the presidency of 
the nation, our revered President, the late William McKinley — (applause) 
— and another who deserved a better fate in that year of 1890 was he 
whom the people of Illinois and all the people of this country rejoice to 
call "Dear Old Uncle Joe." (Applause.) And just as these two great 
figures in recent American history showed of what stuff they were made 
by the perseverance and pluck they then exhibited, so did this candidate, 
whom we are about to present to you, we believe for your favorable 
consideration, for he has been continuously now, with that one exception^ 
a member of Congress for over a fifth of a century. 

His industry is proverbial. He is recognized throughout the land 
as one of the best qualified men in either branch of Congress for the 
discharge of legislative duties. He is the best parliamentarian in the 
United States. As a lawyer he is prepared for the close and analytical 
consideration and judicial determination of all questions. As the presi- 
dent of a sound and popular financial institution located in the very 
heart of our State, he is conversant with those plain and simple financial 
methods which are so essential to the safe conduct of the business of 
the people. (Applause.) 

Through his long career in Congress he has become particularly 
conversant with all the diversified commercial and industrial interests of 
the land. He has been identified with and has been largely responsible 
for much of the legislation during the last few years which has had so 
much to do with the marvelous growth and unparalleled prosperity of the 
United States. (Applause.) I do not suppose there are many men in 
this audience or among these delegates who do not know to whom I 
thus refer. It is hardly necessary for me to mention him. It will not 
be a case such as was called to our attention when the band played "From 
Atlanta to the Sea," but it will be from New York to every sea. (Ap- 
plause.) 

On behalf of the united and solid delegation of the great Empire 
State, the State which is known to every delegate here to be the pivotal 
State of the Union, for as New York goes, so goes the Union, I take 
the greatest pleasure in presenting to you for what we of New York 
believe must be your favorable consideration Congressman James S. 
Sherman of New York. (Applause.) 



188 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

SECONDING SPEECH OF MR. JOSEPH G. CANNON, OF 
ILLINOIS. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Chair, with the unanimous assent 
of the convention, recognizes Mr. Speaker Cannon to second the nom- 
ination of Mr. Sherman. (Applause.) 

Mr. Cannon. — Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Convention, "I 
had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in 
the tents of wickedness." (Applause.) The Republican party, true to 
its policies since its organization, the party of law and order, walking 
in the light of wisdom, keeping step with the advance of civilization, has 
met in its great national convention and has made a platform that is 
true to the policies, the hopes, the aspirations, the progress of the 
country. (Applause.) 

It has nominated for its standard bearer and its great leader Ohio's 
son, William H. Taft, (applause) — a broad, cultured, judicial-minded 
executive official who fcas never failed to answer every draft that has 
been drawn upon him in the equivalent of the fullest payment., with 
fidelity to the public service, for the good of the Republic and all the 
people therein. (Applause.) I most heartily and cheerfully, without 
mental reservation, say that William H. Taft is my candidate (applause), 
and I congratulate this great convention in having made no mistake in 
nominating him. (Applause.) 

In the closing hours of this convention there yet remains a duty to 
perform, and that is to nominate the candidate for Vice President, the 
running mate for William H. Taft. I take great pleasure in saying to 
you that after sixteen years of service in the national House of Repre- 
sentatives, covering a period in the history of the Republic second alone 
in importance to the period embracing the civil war, New York's favorite 
son, in council, on committee, in debate on the floor, has always been 
ready with great strength, with great ability to work for the common 
good, and what is better still than that, with wisdom and judgment he 
has always had the courage, whether in success or in defeat, to be true 
to his convictions, to his constituents, to his party, to the whole people 
of the Republic. (Applause.) 

The middle West that stands first in population, first in agriculture, 
first in manufactures, first in mineral wealth, has the first place upon the 
ticket. The great Empire State honors itself when it honors James S. 
Sherman in presenting him to this convention. (Applause.) I believe 
that the middle West, recognizing the importance of the Empire State, 
recognizing the best interests of your party and of my party from every 
standpoint, not because alone that he is from the State of New York, 
but because he is big enough, able enough, industrious enough, patriotic 
enough to fill the great office of the vice presidency, will support him 
.and if. in the chapter of happenings.which God forbid, the President 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 189 

should be called upon to cross the river, there is no man of my acquaint- 
ance whom I would sooner trust, from all the tests of good citizenship 
and ability worthily to fill the first place, instead of the second place 
in the Republic. (Applause.) 

"By their fruits ye shall know them." By this test, in the words of 
the Master, the Republican party is willing to be tried. That is the best 
pledge as to what we will do when power is continued to us. Tried 
by that test William H. Taft and James S. Sherman will fill the measure, 
and I believe that I can confidently predict that they will walk over the 
track, and by the overwhelming majority of an intelligent constituency 
will be our President and our Vice President for the coming four years. 
Good-by. (Applause.) 

SECONDING SPEECH OF MR. AUGUSTUS E. WILLSON, OF 
KENTUCKY. 

Mr. Willson. — In behalf of the Kentucky delegation I am directed 
to second the nomination of Mr. Sherman for Vice President. (Ap- 
plause.) I have a promissory note out for the shortest speech of the 
Convention, not short because it is a short horse soon curried, but 
short because "good wine needs no bush." (Laughter.) Taft and 
Sherman sounds good to us. It has a kind of an eloquent American 
sound, and not entirely free from a New England sound, and therefore 
a good Republican sound. In fact the ticket is sound all through. In 
the white heat of the Convention, under the hammer of time all the 
knocking has ended in forging the whole Republican party into one solid 
mass that is ready to meet all opposition and carry the ticket to victory. 
(Applause.) 

NOMINATING SPEECH OF MR. HENRY CABOT LODGE, OF 
MASSACHUSETTS. 

Mr. Lodge # . — Mr. Chairman — 

The Presiding Officer (Mr. Frank E. Dennison, of Illinois, in the 
chair.) — The Chair recognizes Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts. 

Mr. Lodge. — Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Convention, in 
behalf of Massachusetts I have the honor to present to this Conven'ion 
the Governor of that State for nomination as your candidate for Vice 
President. Born in Massachusetts, the descendant of Massachusetts an- 
cestors, with the blood of revolutionary soldiers in his veins, he was 
bred in her schools and graduated with honors from Harvard, the great 
University co-eval with the State itself. (Applause.) By inheritance and 
conviction alike, he was a Republican, and as soon as he was out of 
college he began to work for the party, and to do all in his power to 
promote its success and advance its principles. In the campaign of 1884, 
when there was a widespread revolt against the Republican candidate. 



190 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

he stood firm for his party and its principles and cheerfully encountered 
abuse and obloquy because he would not desert the cause to which he 
was devoted. (Applause.) 

For years he served his party, putting at its disposal all his powers 
of eloquent speech in any State at any time. All this he did without 
thought of office or reward. 

When the war with Spain broke upon the country, he was first to 
offer his services and gave up his commission as a general of militia 
to take the position of adjutant in a regiment ordered to the front. 
Appointed later to the staff of General Lee he served with distinction 
throughout the war, commended alike by his superior officers and by all 
with whom he was associated. (Applause.) 

In recognition of his services, President McKinley offered him a 
high place in one of our new possessions, which he declined. 

He continued with unabated zeal, his work for the Republican party, 
and in 1900, he accompanied President Roosevelt in his great campaign 
of that year, speaking with him in every part of the country. 

Six years ago he was nominated for Lieutenant-Governor of Massa- 
chusetts. Three times elected to that office, he was promoted to the 
governorship of that State, and three times elected by decisive majorities 
and is now serving his last term. 

Such is the record of the man I present to this Convention, in the 
name of Massachusetts, for nomination as Vice President. (Applause.) 
It is a record of distinguished service to his party and to the State, 
generously, ungrudgingly given. He has been an able and an honorable 
governor, devoting all his strength of body and mind to the advancement 
of Massachusetts. Liberal and progressive, his name is associated not 
only with sound administration, but with the earnest advocacy of mea- 
sures which would promote the welfare of the State and which were in 
the interests of the broadest humanity. Of conspicuous ability, of re- 
markable eloquence in speech, of unblemished character, a life-long and 
loyal Republican, he would bring to the service of the nation the same 
devotion to principle, the same zeal and energy, the same* earnest faith 
in what he believes to be right, that he has for years given to Massa- 
chusetts and to the service of his party. (Applause.) 

I have the honor, the great honor, to present to you for nomina.- 
tion, the Honorable Curtis Guild, of Massachusetts. (Applause.) 

SECONDING SPEECH OF MR. CHASE S. OSBORN, OF 
MICHIGAN. 

Mr. Osborn. — Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Convention : The 
nominee of this Convention for Vice President must be a man of presi- 
dential caliber. This is no one man country, thank God. No matter 
how tried and true the man, or how great or how loveable he is. or how 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 191 

<dc<;p the sorrow when he passes, there is always another to take his 
place. 

Even- man mentioned before this Convention for President would 
have made a good Chief Executive. It was the duty of this Convention 
to select the best man under all conditions. In this respect it has done 
its work perfectly. Every man whose name will be presented to this 
Convention for Vice President would make a good Vice President, but 
it is the duty of this Convention to select the best man ; and the best 
man for Vice President, in my opinion, is Curtis Guild, Jr. (Applause.) 
When we think of Massachusetts the mind is exalted by concepts of 
highest justice and superb intellect. When we think of Boston the heart 
is fired with the memories of the brave men who tumbled the tea into 
the sea and who fought and fell at Bunker Hill for the borning of a 
new nation, strong and great. When we think of New England the soul 
is inspired by the self-denial and the heroism of the Pilgrim Fathers. It 
is the land in which the cradle of liberty was builded. Those were the 
hands that rocked it. For forty years they have had no representation 
•on the national ticket. Is loyalty to go forever unrewarded? Is doubt 
forever to gain the prize? 

In the conscience of Governor Guild there is no twilight zone where 
•duty compromises with policy or where right truces with wrong. In 
public life he is neither a tyrant nor a tool. In private ambition he is 
neither a seeker nor a shirker. Massachusetts, my friends, sifts her 
public men finely. They have placed Governor Guild in the forefront 
alongside the distinguished Senator, Mr. Lodge, and the equally distin- 
guished Senator, Mr. Crane. If you will nominate him the people will 
understand what he stands for. The voters of the country want no 
result of professional political sculptors. They want no man who stands 
for the terminal moraine of a political glacier. Nominate Curtis Guild, 
and at election time the shouts of victory for Taft and Guild will rever- 
berate from Itasca to the Everglades, from the Penobscot to the Pecos, 
and from Hellgate to the Golden Gate. 

"He lives for those who love him, 

Whose hearts are kind and true ; 
For the heaven that smiles above him, 

And awaits in spirit too ; 
For all human ties that bind him, 

For the task by God assigned him, 
For the bright hopes left behind him, 

And the good that he can do. 

"He lives for those who love him. 

For those who know him true ; 



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For the heaven that smiles above him, 

And awaits in spirit too, 
For the cause that lacks assistance, 

For the wrong that needs resistance, 
For the future in the distance, 

And the good that he can do." 

SECONDING SPEECH OF MR. J. B. YELLOWLEY, OF 
MISSISSIPPI. 

Mr. Yellowley. — Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Convention, . 
in behalf of the great State of Mississippi I desire to second the nom- 
ination of that able statesman and splendid American gentleman, the 
Hon. James S. Sherman, of New York . (Applause.) * 

NOMINATING SPEECH OF MR. THOMAS N. McCARTER, OF 

NEW JERSEY. 

Mr. McCarter, of New Jersey (when the State of New Jersey was 
called). — Mr. Chairman — 

The Permanent Chairman. — The gentleman from New Jersey. 

Mr. McCarter. — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention, 
the Republicans of New Jersey extend greetings to this gathering of 
the faithful, and present with confidence for the deliberate consideration 
of this convention a candidate for the great office of Vice President. 

For our standard bearer we have once again visited the marvelous 
State of Ohio and selected the mighty Taft. Where shall we go and 
whom shall we choose as his fellow candidate to lead the marching 
hosts to victory? Fellow Republicans, the place to go is east of the 
Allegheny Mountains. True it may be that "Westward the course of 
empire takes its way," but the time is not yet ripe for our party to 
deviate from established custom by ignoring, in the choice of both its 
candidates, the States that comprise the great Eastern Atlantic Seaboard. 
To do this now in the perilous times through which we are passing would 
indeed be a vital mistake. Let us, on the other hand, complete the 
ticket by the choice of a Vice Presidential candidate who will comple- 
ment his chief, so that, standing shoulder to shoulder, they will weld 
together all the forces of Republicanism from whatever locality or of 
whatever shade of opinion. (Applause.) 

What then of our candidate? Born of the best of native American 
stock, we find him in the year 1862 at sixteen years of age — a mere 
boy — leaving home to enter the Union Army, where he served with 
credit for three years and until the war was over, participating in 
nineteen engagements, including Antietam, Chancellorsville and Gettys- 
burg, and marching with Sherman from Atlanta to the Sea. My country- 
men, give the Republicans of this re-united nation, whether veterans or 




HON. DAVID W. MULVANE, of Kansas, 
Member of Sub-Committee on Arrangements. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 193 

recruits, one more chance — quite possibly in the nature of things their 
last opportunity — to vote for one of the "Boys in Blue." (Applause.) 

Returning to New Jersey after the war, — still a lad — he embarked 
in manufacturing in a small way, an occupation which he has from 
that clay to this pursued, until by sheer force of character, by industry 
and by skill, he has developed his industry so that it has become one of 
the large manufacturing concerns of the country, the merit of whose 
finished product is known both at home and abroad; an enterprise that 
industrially is a neighbor of half the Continent, with its stores in Boston 
and St. Louis and its plants in Newark, Cleveland and Chicago. Thus 
he has become well known to all the commercial and financial interests 
east of the Missouri River, by whom his nomination would be most 
favorably received. 

There is in the State of Michigan a popular automobile manufac- 
turing concern that makes use in its advertising of what is to me a 
very striking trade phrase, which reads, "Ask the man that owns one." 
I say to you, ask the employees of Franklin Murphy, old or young, 
what they think of him. No labor trouble has ever emanated from that 
great establishment ; on the contrary, those who work for him are his 
best friends and his greatest admirers. (Applause.) 

But although thus occupied for so many years, he has likewise always 
found time to stand for whatever was best for the uplifting of the city 
in which he lives, the State of his birth, and the nation he loves. He 
has served on numerous boards of municipal improvement. He has long 
been a member of the board of Managers of the National Soldiers' 
Home. In 1901 he was elected governor of New Jersey by a substantial 
majority, and gave the State one of its cleanest and most effective 
administrations. (Applause.) 

His work for the party has been as conspicuously successful as has 
been his business and civic career. During the eventful period when 
New Jersey was being transformed from a rock-ribbed Democratic- 
State to a permanent place in the Republican column, Governor Murphy 
was at the helm, as chairman of the Republican State Committee. For 
eight years past, he has been New Jersey's representative on the Na- 
tional Committee, and for the last two National Campaigns has served 
with ceaseless fidelity on the National Executive Committee, contribut- 
ing in no small degree to the McKinley victory in 1900 and to the- 
Roosevelt landslide four years ago. In politics he is courageous but 
conservative. In his Republicanism, he is strenuous, but stalwart. He 
has ever been the friend of the colored race, and I assert with con- 
fidence that his nomination will be most acceptable to the army of voters 
belonging to that race for which the Republican party has labored so 
hard and accomplished so much. If after election, through the vicissi- 
tudes of life, the duties of the Chief Magistracy should devolve upon 
him. he is amply fitted by ability and experience to perform them in a 



194 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

manner creditable alike to party and nation. In short he combines all 
the elements needed in a successful running mate at this psychological 
moment. 

Twelve years ago our party went to Ohio and New Jersey and 
chose McKinley and Hobart. We made no mistake then and we shall 
make no mistake now, if, history repeating itself, we shall again go to 
Ohio and New Jersey and our ticket be Taft and Murphy. I nominate 
for Vice President, Ex-governor Franklin Murphy, of New Jersey. (Ap- 
plause.) 

SECONDING REMARKS OF MR. HARRY SKINNER OF NORTH 

CAROLINA. 

Mr. Skinner (when the State of North Carolina was called). — 
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, Ohio and New York, Taft and Sherman, 
appear to the Southern people as being invincible. The Southern dele- 
gations have been criticised for the use of their power in this conven- 
tion. I want to say in justification of them that they have exercised it 
intelligently, patriotically and wisely in supporting William H. Taft 
for President. And, likewise, when we come to select his running mate 
we want to show the same patriotism, the same wisdom, and the same 
courage, by voting for that excellent gentleman and pre-eminent parlia- 
mentarian, James S. Sherman of the State of New York. (Applause.) 

SECONDING REMARKS OF MR. DENNIS T. FLYNN, OF 
OKLAHOMA. 

Mr. Flynn (when the State of Oklahoma was called). — Mr. Chair- 
man and gentlemen, Oklahoma was nineteen years getting into the Union. 
It has been said "as goes New York so goes the Union." Oklahoma 
proposes to stay in the Union, and to go with New York. We, in the 
Southwest, support Mr. Sherman not only because he is a peerless 
statesman, but because he is an honest man and belongs to the common 
herd. (Applause.) We second his nomination because after twenty 
years in public life he is as poor today as he was when he entered 
public office. (Applause.) To know him is to love him. We have 
nominated a standard bearer whom everybody loves. Let us now, to 
prove that there is no difference between the West and the East, extend 
the glad hand to New York, and nominate Mr. Sherman. (Applause.) 

SECONDING REMARKS OF MR. MERLIN E. OLMSTED, OF 
PENNSYLVANIA. 

Mr. Olmsted (when the State of Pennsylvania was called). — Mr. 
Chairman and gentlemen, after twelve years experience with him in the 
House of Representatives and personal knowledge of his character and 



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195 



capacity and magnificent equipment for the position, on behalf of sub- 
stantially the entire delegation from Pennsylvania, which State gave 
Theodore Roosevelt the biggest majority ever given to any candidate 
by any party, and which proposes to give more than 500,000 for William 
H. Taft, I take great pleasure in seconding the nomination for Vice 
President of James S. Sherman, of New York. (Applause.) 

SECONDING REMARKS OF MR. H. CLAY EVANS, OF 
TENNESSEE. 

Mr. Evans (when the State of Tennessee was called). — I rise on 
behalf of the Tennessee delegation to second the nomination of James 
S. Sherman, of New York. (Applause.) 

SECONDING REMARKS OF MR. C. B. SLEMP, OF VIRGINIA. 

Mr. Slemp (when the State of Virgina was called). — Mr. Chair- 
man and gentlemen, on behalf of the Republican party of Virginia, the 
Old Dominion State, and speaking for a Congressional District in Vir- 
ginia which gave 5,000 Republican majority and wall continue to do so, 
a Congressional District in which sixty per cent of the old confederate 
soldiers voted the Republican ticket, recognizing the ability of James 
S. Sherman, of New York I rise to second his nomination. (Applause.) 

The call of the States, etc., was concluded. 

VOTE FOR CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The call of the States having been 
concluded, the Secretary will call the roll on the question of nominating 
a candidate for Vice President. 

The roll was called, and resulted as follows : 









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Alabama . . 
Arkansas 
California . 
Colorado .. 
Connecticut 
Delaware 
Florida 
Georgia . . . 
Idaho 



22 |. 
18 1. 
20 |. 
10 |. 
14 I 
6 I. 
10 j. 
26 |. 



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OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



States, Territories, Etc. 













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Illinois 

Indiana 

Iowa 

Kansas 

Kentucky 

Louisiana 

Maine , 

Maryland 

Massachusetts 

Michigan 

Minnesota 

Mississippi 

Missouri 

Montana 

Nebraska 

Nevada 

New Hampshire 

New Jersey 

New York 

North Carolina 

North Dakota 

Ohio 

Oklahoma - 

Oregon 

Pennsylvania .... 

Rhode Island 

South Carolina 

South Dakota 

Tennessee 

Texas 

Utah 

Vermont 

Virginia 

Washington 

West Virginia 

Wisconsin 

Wyoming 

Alaska 

Arizona 

District of Columbia. 

Hawaii 

New Mexico 

Philippine Islands . . . 
Porto Rico 



Totals 



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77 



10 



10 



Not voting, Wisconsin 1. 



The Permanent Chairman. — On the question of nominating a 
candidate for the Vice Presidency, Mr. Fairbanks., of Indiana, has re- 
ceived 1 vote; Mr. Guild, of Massachusetts, 75 votes; Mr. Murphy, of 
New Jersey, 77 votes; Mr. George L. Sheldon, of Nebraska, 10 votes, 
and Mr. Sherman, of New York, 816 votes. (Applause.) Shall the 
nomination be made unanimous? 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 197 

Mr. W. Murray Crane, of Massachusetts. — Mr. Chairman, on be- 
half of the Massachusetts delegation I move that the nomination of 
James S. Sherman be made unanimous. 

Mr. Chase S. Osborn, of Michigan. — I second the motion. 

Mr. John Franklin Fort, of New Jersey. — Mr. Chairman and 
gentlemen of the Convention, on behalf of the State of New Jersey I 
desire also to second the motion that the nomination of James S. 
Sherman be made unanimous. (Applause.) We of New Jersey recog- 
nize the fact that since the days of the cutting of the tunnels New 
York is only a part of New Jersey and in seconding the motion of 
course we are happy. (Applause.) 

The Permanent Chairman. — The question is on agreeing to the 
motion of the gentleman from Massachusetts that the nomination of 
James S. Sherman of New York as the candidate of this Convention for 
Vice President be made unanimous. 

The motion was unanimously agreed to. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Chair declares James S. Sher- 
man, of New York, your nominee for the office of Vice President for 
the term beginning the 4th of March, 1909. (Applause.) 

COMMITTEES TO NOTIFY THE NOMINEES. 

Mr Jacob H. Gallinger, of New Hampshire. — I beg leave to offer 
the resolution I send to the desk. 

The Presiding Officer (Mr. William L. Ward, of New York, in 
the chair). — The gentleman from New Hampshire offers a resolution, 
which will be read. 

The Secretary read as follows: 

Resolved, That the Permanent Chairman of this convention, Hon. Henry 
Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, be appointed chairman of the committee to notify 
Hon. William H. Taft, of his nomination for President, and that the Temporary 
Chairman, Hon. Julius C. Burrows, of Michigan, be appointed chairman of the 
committee to notify Hon. James S. Sherman of his nomination for Vice President; 
and that the committees notify the candidates for President and Vice President on 
such dates as may hereafter be arranged. 

Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts. — I ask the gentleman 
from New Hampshire to make a modification in his resolution. It will 
be impossible for me to fulfill the most agreeable and honorable duty 
suggested by the resolution, and I ask leave of the convention to sub- 
stitute for my name that of General Warner of Missouri. 

The resolution as amended was agreed to. 

PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS. 

Mr. Felix Agnus, of Maryland, offered the following resolution, 
which was read and agreed to : 



198 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

Resolved, That the Secretary of this Convention is hereby directed to prepare 
and publish a full and complete report of the official proceedings of the convention,, 
under the direction of the National Committee, co-operating with' the local 
committee. 

THANKS TO CONVENTION OFFICERS. 

Mr. William Charles Brumder, of Wisconsin, offered the follow- 
ing resolution, which was read and agreed to : 

Resolved, That the thanks of this convention are tendered to the temporary 
chairman, the permanent chairman, the general secretary and his assistants, the 
sergeant-at-arms and his deputies, the reading and tally clerkss. the official reporter r 
and the messengers. 



TRISH-AMERICAN REPUBLICAN LEAGUE OF NEW YORK. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Chair lays before the convention 
a telegram just received, which will be read. 
The Secretary read as follows : 

"The Irish-American Republican League of Greater New York now in executive 
session at the Astor House, send greetings to the National Republican Convention, 
and wish to record themselves as indorsing the nomination of William H. Taft to be 
President of the United States. We pledge him our most hearty support as the 
nominee as promised in the resolutions adopted as long ago as February 15, 1908. 

JAMES R. O'BEIRNE, 
THOMAS D. HENRY, 
MARTIN J. MURPHY, 
OSCAR G. BARROWS." 



THANKS TO THE CITY OF CHICAGO, ETC. 

m 

Mr. Augustus E. Willson, of Kentucky, offered the following reso- 
lution, which was read and unanimously agreed to : 

Resolved, That the thanks of this convention are hereby tendered to Fred W. 

Upham, chairman of the Chicago Committee of Arrangements, the members of the 

sub-committee of the National Committee, and the citizens of Chicago, for the 

hospitable and perfect provisions made for the sessions of the convention and the 
entertainment of delegates, alternates and visitors. 

COMMITTEES TO NOTIFY NOMINEES. 

The Permanent Chairman. — The Chair desires to announce that 
the names of the members of the two notification committees have been 
sent in and tabulated by the clerks. If the Convention desires those 
lists will be read. (Cries of ''No.") If not. they will stand as they 
were handed in on the slips. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 199 

COMMITTEE TO NOTIFY THE CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT 
OF HIS NOMINATION. 

State or Territory. Name of Member. 

Alabama N. L. STEELE. 

Arkansas FRANK KENNEDY. 

California G. C. ROSS. 

Colorado T. F. WALSH. 

Connecticut , C. H. CLARK. 

Delaware PRESTON LEA. 

Florida JOS. E. LEE. 

Georgia J. B. GASTON. 

Idaho JAMES H. BRADY. 

Illinois R. O. WEST. 

Indiana GEORGE ADE. 

Iowa A. P. CLARKE. 

Kansas GRANT HORNADAY. 

Kentucky A. R. BURNAM. 

Louisiana No selection. 

Maine EDWARD P. RICKER, 

Maryland FELIX AGNUS. 

Massachusetts SIDNEY D. BIGNEY. 

Michigan G. P. CODD. 

Minnesota C. M. BUCK. 

Mississippi L. P. MOSELEY. 

Missouri JEPHTHA D. HOWE. 

Montana CHARLES R. LEONARD. 

Nebraska W. A. GEORGE. 

Nevada OSCAR J. SMITH. 

New Hampshire ALFRED F. HOWARD. 

New Jersey FERD. W. ROEBLING. 

New York O. T. BANNARD. 

North Carolina CHAS. J. HARRIS. 

North Dakota C. J. LORD. 

Ohio J. WARREN KEIFER. 

Oklahoma CHAS. SEELEY. 

Oregon A. B. THOMPSON. 

Pennsylvania CHAS. A. ROOK. 

Rhode Island JOS. E. FLETCHER. 

South Carolina ., T. L. GRANT. 

South Dakota A. W. EWERT. 

Tennessee NEWELL SANDERS. 

Texas EUGENE NOLTE. 

Utah C. E. LOOSE. 

Vermont R. W. HUBBARD. 

Virginia C. M. GIBBENS. 

Washington C. S. EATON. 

West Virginia C. F. ETTER. 

Wisconsin '. J. T. MURPHY. 

Wyoming F. W. MONDELL. 

Alaska GEO. A. SHEA. 

Arizona R. E. SLOAN. 

District of Columbia H. H. FLATHER. 

Hawaii G. B. McCLELLAN. 

New Mexico W. H. H. LLEWELLYN. 

Philippine Islands A. S. CROSSFIELD. 

Porto Rico F. P. QUINONES. 



200 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

COMMITTEE TO NOTIFY THE CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESI- 
DENT OF HIS NOMINATION. 

State or Territory. Name of Member. 

Alabama F. H. LANTHROP. 

Arkansas .. A. C. JONES. 

California JOHN L. PAUL. 

Colorado A. A. REED. 

Connecticut GEO. E. KEENEY. 

Delaware HARRY A. RICHARDSON. 

Florida GEO. W. ALLEN. 

Georgia M. B. MORTON. 

Idaho WARREN TRUITT. 

Illinois ROBERT CLARK. 

Indiana G. WILL WILSON. 

Iowa EUGENE SHAFFTNER, 

Kansas GEO. H. HUNTER.- 

Kentucky JOHN P. HASWELL, JR. 

Louisiana No selection. 

Maine , HORACE MITCHELL. 

Maryland WM. T. HENRY. 

Massachusetts SAMUEL E. WINSLOW. 

Michigan E. B. FOSS. 

Minnesota ANDREW PETERSON. 

Mississippi CHARLES BANKS. 

Missouri LOUIS BENECKE. 

Montana J. G. BAIR. 

Nebraska J. H. ARENDS. 

Nevada J. G. THOMPSON. 

New Hampshire LESTER F. THURBER. 

New Jersey ERNEST R. ACKERMAN. 

New York GEO. W. ALDRIDGE. 

North Carolina CHARLES FRENCH TOMS. 

North Dakota ANDREW SANDAGER. 

Ohio JAMES A. MARTIN. 

Oklahoma PATRICK J. DORE. 

Oregon HENRY W COE. 

Pennsylvania JOSEPH R. GRUNDY. 

Rhode Island ALEXANDER G. CRUMB, 

South Carolina J. DUNCAN ADAMS. 

South Dakota C. J. ANDERSON. 

Tennessee E. L. GREGORY. 

Texas HARRIS MASTERSON. 

Utah W. D. LIVINGSTONE. 

Vermont THAD. M. CHAPMAN 

Virginia R. I. ROOP. 

Washington W. J. RUCKER. 

West Virginia EDWARD HOUSTON. 

Wisconsin ATLEY PETERSON. 

Wyoming FRANK W. MONDELL. 

Alaska L. P. SHACKLEFORD. 

Arizona L. W. POWELL. 

District of Columbia R. R. HORNER. 

Hawaii J. M. DOWSETT. 

New Mexico W. H. NEWCOMB. 

Philippine Islands THOMAS L. HARTIGAN. 

Porto Rico R- H. TODD. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 201 

FINAL ADJOURNMENT. 

Mr. Judson W. Lyons, of Georgia. — Mr. Chairman, I move that 
the convention adjourn sine die. 

The motion was agreed to; and (at 11 o'clock and 48 minutes a. m.) 
the Chair declared the convention adjourned without day. 



Official Notification of Candidates 



ADDRESS OF HON. WILLIAM WARNER, 
OF MISSOURI, 

Notifying William Howard Taft of his Nomination for 
President, at Cincinnati, Ohio, July 28, 1908. 

Mr. Taft: You are, of course., not unaware that Mr. Roosevelt's 
term as President of the United States will expire on March 4, 1909; 
that the political parties of our country are perfecting their organizations 
preparatory to presenting to the people, at the general election to be 
held in November next, their respective candidates for that high office ' r 
that the Republican party in national convention, composed of delegates 
representing every state and territory and the outlying possessions of 
the United States, assembled at Chicago on June 16 to 19, inclusive, 
has completed its deliberations, that it has outlined and submitted to the 
citizenship of the republic, for consideration and adoption, governmental 
policies, which it confidently believes will be of the highest service to 
the nation in her every part; that it has from among its strong and 
experienced statesmen — men whose service to the public has demon- 
strated their worthiness in cleanness of character and devotion to country 
and the welfare of the individual citizen — and with full understanding 
of the nation's needs in her highest and best aspirations, selected you as 
its candidate for President — the highest honor that can be conferred 
by this constitutional republic, and I would, therefore, add the most 
exalted political office on this earth — and the committee which you see 
before you, whose chairmanship I have the honor to hold in the tem- 
porary absence from the United States of Henry Cabot Lodge of Massa- 
chusetts permanent chairman of the Republican national convention, now 
tenders to you, at the direction of that convention, the formal nomina- 
tion of the Republican party for the presidency of the United States, 
and I hand you an engrossed copy of the platform of policies adopted 
by that convention. 

I cannot, sir, complete the discharge of this most agreeable duty 
without assuring you of the high respect in which you are held not 
only by those of your own political faith, but by your fellow citizens 

(202) 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 203 

-without regard to party ; of their admiration of your ability, mani- 
fested throughout your public service; of their knowledge of the prepara- 
tion which you will bring to the discharge of the high and difficult 
duties of President ; of their belief in your deep conviction of the equality 
of all men before the law, and in the practical application of that prin- 
ciple by any administration of which you may be the head, the rule 
by which every official act of Mr. Roosevelt as President, has been 
squared, which has won for him the confidence and respect of his country- 
men throughout the land, and which has brought to him at all times 
their unquestioned and earnest support. It was his universal application 
of this rule which caused his party, in national convention, to pay him 
the following just and splendid tribute of approval: 

"His administration is an epoch in American history. In no other 
period since national sovereignty was won under Washington, or pre- 
served under Lincoln, has there been such mighty progress in those 
ideals of government which make for justice, equality and fair dealing 
among men. The highest aspirations of the American people have found a 
voice. Their most exalted servant represents the best aims and worthiest 
purposes of all his countrymen. American manhood has been lifted 
to a nobler sense of duty and obligation. Conscience and courage in 
public station and higher standards of right and wrcng in private life 
have become cardinal principles of political faith. Capital and labor 
have been brought into closer relations of confidence and interdepend- 
ence, and the abuse of wealth, the tyranny of power, and all the evils 
-of privilege and favoritism have been put to scorn by the simple manly 
virtues of justice and fair play." 

It is gratifying to your countrymen to reflect that of that administra- 
tion you have been a conspicuous part, as you were of the administration 
of Mr. McKinley, whose accomplishments mark a national progress un- 
surpassed in all our previous national life. 

It, therefore, gives me genuine pleasure, Mr. Taft, to present to 
you this formal nomination from the Republican party, whose govern- 
mental policies have for so long ' kept in balance the mighty forces of 
the nation," and to whose continued guidance of the nation we have 
■every reasonable right to believe that the people are now looking. 



JUDGE TAFT'S REPLY. 



Judge Taft replied as follows : 
Senator Warner and Gen'.lemen of the Committee : 

I am deeply sensible of the honor which the Republican National 
Convention has conferred on me in the nomination which you formally 
tender. I accept it with full appreciation of the responsibility it imposes. 



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REPUBLICAN STRENGTH IN MAINTENANCE OF ROOSEVELT 

POLICIES. 

Gentlemen, the strength of the Republican cause in the campaign at 
hand is in the fact that we represent the policies essential to the reform 
of known abuses, to the continuance of liberty and true prosperity, and 
that we are determined, as our platform unequivocally declares, to main- 
tain them and carry them on. For more than ten years this country 
passed through an epoch of material development far beyond any that 
ever occurred in the world before. En its course, certain evils crept in. 
Some prominent and influential members of the community, spurred by 
financial success and in their hurry for greater wealth, became unmindful 
of the common rules of business honesty and fidelity and' of the limita- 
tions imposed by law upon their action. This became known. The revela- 
tions of the breaches of trust, the disclosures as to rebates and discrim- 
inations by railways, the accumulating evidence of the violation of the 
anti-trust law by a number of corporations, the overissue of stocks and 
bonds on interstate railways for the unlawful enriching of directors and 
for the purpose of concentrating control of railways in one management,, 
all quickened the conscience of the people, and brought on a moral awak- 
ening among them that boded well for the future of the country. 

WHAT ROOSEVELT HAS DONE. 

The man who formulated the expression of the popular conscience 
and who led the movement for practical reform was Theodore Roose- 
velt. He laid down the doctrine that the rich violator of the law should 
be as amenable to restraint and punishment as the offender without 
wealth and without influence, and he proceeded by recommending legis- 
lation and directing executive action to make that principle good in 
actual performance. He secured the passage of the so-called rate bill,, 
designed more effectively to restrain excessive and fix reasonable rates, 
and to punish secret rebates and discriminations which had been general' 
in the practice of the railroads, and which had done much to enable 
unlawful trusts to drive out of business their competitors. It secured 
much closer supervision of railway transactions and brought within the 
operation of the same statute express companies, sleeping car companies, 
fast freight and refrigerator lines, terminal railroads and pipe lines, and 
in order to avoid undue discrimination forbade in future the combination 
of the transportation and shipping business under one control. 

President Roosevelt directed suits to be brought and prosecutions 
to be instituted under the anti-trust law, to enforce its provisions against 
the most powerful of the industrial corporations. He pressed to passage 
the pure food law and the meat inspection law in the interest of the 
health of the public, clean business methods and great ultimate benefit 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 205 

to the trades themselves. He recommended the passage of a law, which 
the Republican convention has since specifically approved, restricting the 
future issue of stocks and bonds by interstate railways to such as may 
be authorized by Federal authority. He demonstrated to the people by 
what he said, by what he recommended to Congress, and by what he 
did. the sincerity of his efforts to command respect for the law, to secure- 
equality of all before the law, and to save the country from the dangers, 
of a plutocratic government, toward which we were fast tending. In 
this work Mr. Roosevelt has had the support and sympathy of the Re- 
publican party, and its chief hope of success in the present controversy 
must rest on the confidence which the people of the country have in the 
sincerity of the party's declaration in its platform, that it intends to 
continue his policies. 

NECESSARY TO DEVISE SOME MEANS OF PERMANENTLY 
SECURING PROGRESS MADE. 

Mr. Roosevelt has set high the standard of business morality and 
obedience to law. The railroad rate bill was more useful possibly in the 
immediate moral effect of its passage than even in the legal effect of 
its very useful provisions. From its enactment dates the voluntary 
abandonment of the practice of rebates and discriminations by the rail- 
roads and the return by their managers to obedience to law in the fixing 
of tariffs. The pure food and meat inspection laws and the prosecutions 
directed by the President under the anti-trust law have had a similar 
moral effect in the general business community and have made it now 
the common practice for the great industrial corporations to consult the 
law with a view to keeping within its provisions. It has also had the 
effect of protecting and encouraging smaller competitive companies so 
that they have been enabled to do a profitable business. 

But we should be blind to the ordinary working" of human nature 
if we did not recognize that the moral standards set by President Roose- 
velt will not continue to be observed by those whom cupidity and a desire 
for financial power may tempt, unless the requisite machinery is intro- 
duced into the law which shall in its practical operation maintain these 
standards and secure the country against a departure from them. 

CHIEF FUNCTION OF NEXT ADMINISTRATION TO CLINCH 
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE. 

The chief function of the next Administration, in my judgment, is 
distinct from, and a progressive development of that which has been 
performed by President Roosevelt. The chief function of the next Ad- 
ministration is to complete and perfect the machinery by which these 
standards may be maintained, by which the lawbreakers may be promptly 
restrained and punished, but which shall operate with sufficient accuracy 



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and dispatch to interfere with legitimate business as little as possible. 
Such machinery is not now adequate. Under the present rate bill, and 
under all its amendments, the burden of the Interstate Commerce Com- 
mission in supervising and regulating the operation of the railroads of 
this country has grown so heavy that it is utterly impossible for that 
tribunal to hear and dispose, in any reasonable time, of the many com- 
plaints, queries and issues that are brought before it for decision. It 
ought to be relieved of its jurisdiction as an executive, . directing body, 
and its functions should be limited to the quasi-judicial investigation of 
complaints made by individuals and made by a department of the Gov- 
ernment charged with the executive business of supervising the operation 
of railways. 

There should be a classification of that very small percentage of in- 
dustrial corporations having power and opportunity to' effect illegal 
restraints of trade and monopolies, and legislation either inducing or 
compelling them to subject themselves to registry and to proper publicity 
regulations and supervision of the Department of Commerce and Labor. 

CONSTRUCTIVE WORK OF NEXT ADMINISTRATION TO 
ORGANIZE SUBORDINATE AND ANCILLARY MACHIN- 
ERY TO MAINTAIN STANDARDS ON ONE HAND, 
AND NOT TO INTERFERE WITH BUSINESS ON 
THE OTHER. 

The field covered by the industrial combinations and by the rail- 
roads is so very extensive that the interests of the public and the in- 
terests of the business concerned cannot be properly subserved except 
by reorganization of bureaus in the Department of Commerce and Labor, 
of Agriculture, and the Department of Justice, and a change in the juris- 
diction of the Interstate Commerce Commission. It does not assist 
matters to prescribe new duties for the Interstate Commerce Commis- 
sion which it is practically impossible for it to perform, or to denounce 
new offenses with drastic punishment, unless subordinate and ancillary 
legislation shall be passed making possible the quick enforcement in the 
great variety of cases which are constantly arising, of the principles laid 
down by Mr. Roosevelt, and with respect to which only typical instances 
of prosecution with the present machinery are possible. Such legisla- 
tion should and would greatly promote legitimate business by enabling 
those anxious to obey the Federal statutes to know just what are the 
bounds of their lawful action. The practical constructive and difficult 
work, therefore, of those who follow Mr. Roosevelt is to devise the ways 
and means by which the high level of business integrity and obedience 
to law which he has established may be maintained and departures from 
it restrained without undue interference with legitimate business. 



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RAILWAY TRAFFIC AGREEMENTS APPROVED BY COM- 
MISSION SHOULD BE VALID. 

It is agreeable to note in this regard that the Republican platform 
expressly and the Democratic platform impliedly, approve an amendment 
to the Interstate Commerce law, by which interstate railroads may make 
useful traffic agreements if approved by the Commission. This has been 
strongly recommended by President Roosevelt and will make for the 
benefit of the business. 

PHYSICAL VALUATION OF RAILWAYS. 

Some of the suggestions of the Democratic platform relate really 
to this subordinate and ancillary machinery to which I have referred. 
Take for instance the so-called "physical valuation of railways." It is 
clear that the sum of all rates or receipts of a railway, less proper ex- 
penses, should be limited to a fair profit upon the reasonable value of 
its property, and that if the sum exceeds this measure, it ought to be 
reduced. The difficulty in enforcing the principle is in ascertaining what 
is the reasonable value of the company's property, and in fixing what 
is a fair profit. It is clear that the physical value of a railroad and its 
plant is an element to be given weight in determining its full value; 
but as President Roosevelt in his Indianapolis speech and the Supreme 
Court have in effect pointed out, the value of the railroad as a going 
concern, including its good will, due to efficiency of service and many 
other circumstances, may be much greater than the value of its tangible 
property, and it is the former that measures the investment on which 
a fair profit must be allowed. Then,, too, the question what is a fair 
profit is one involving not only the rate of interest usually earned on 
normally safe investments, but also a sufficient allowance to make up 
for the risk of loss both of capital and interest in the original outlay. 
These considerations will have justified the company in imposing charges 
high enough to secure a fair income on the enterprise as a whole. The 
securities at market prices will have passed into the hands of subsequent 
purchasers from the original investors. Such circumstances should prop- 
erly affect the decision of the tribunal engaged in determining whether 
the totality of rates charged is reasonable or excessive. To ignore them 
might so seriously and unjustly impair settled values as to destroy all 
hope of restoring confidence and forever to end the inducement for in- 
vestment in new railroad construction which, in returning prosperous 
times, is sure to be essential to our material progress. As Mr. Roose- 
velt has said in speaking of this very subject: 

"The effect of such valuation and supervision of securities can not be 
retroactive. Existing securities should be tested by laws in existence at the 
time of their issue. This Nation would no more injure securities which have 
become an important part of the National wealth than it would consider a 
proposition to repudiate the National debt." 



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The question of rates and the treatment of railways is one that has 
two sides. The shippers are certainly entitled to reasonable rates; but 
less is an injustice to the carriers. Good business for the railroads is 
essential to general prosperity. Injustice to them is not alone injustice 
to stockholders and capitalists, whose further investments may be neces- 
sary for the good of the whole country, but it directly affects and re- 
duces the wages of railway employees, and indeed may deprive them of 
their places entirely. 

From what has been said, the proper conclusion would seem to be 
that in attempting- to determine whether the entire schedule of rates of 
a railway is excessive, the physical valuation of the road is a relevant 
and important but not necessarily a controlling factor. 

PHYSICAL VALUATION PROPERLY USED WILL -NOT GEN- 
ERALLY IMPAIR SECURITIES. 

I am confident that the fixing of rates on the principles suggested 
above would not materially impair the present market values of railroad 
securities in most cases, for I believe that the normal increase in the 
"value of railroad properties, especially in their terminals, will more than 
xnake up for the possible overcapitalization in earlier years. In some 
cases, doubtless, it will be found that overcapitalization is made an ex- 
cuse for excessive rates, and then they should be reduced ; but the 
consensus of opinion seems to be that the railroad rates generally in 
this country are reasonably low. This is why, doubtless, the complaints 
filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission against excessive rates 
are so few as compared with those against unlawful discrimination in 
rates between shippers and between places. Of course, in the determina- 
tion of the question whether discrimination is unlawful or not, the phy- 
sical valuation of the whole road is of little weight. 

CONCLUSION THAT THERE SHOULD BE PHYSICAL 
VALUATION. 

I have discussed this, with some degree of detail, merely to point 
out that the valuation by the Interstate Commerce Commission of the 
tangible property of a railroad is proper and may from time to time be 
necessary in settling certain issues which may come before them, and 
that no evil or injustice can come from valuation in such cases, if it 
be understood that the result is to be used for a just purpose, and the 
right to a fair profit under all the circumstances of the investment is 
recognized. The interstate Commerce Commission has now the power 
to ascertain the value of the physical railroad property, if necessary, in 
determining the reasonableness of rates. If the machinery for doing so 
is not adequate, as is probable, it should be made so. 

The Republican platform recommends legislation forbidding the issue 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 209 

in the future of interstate railway stocks and bonds without Federal 
authority. It may occur in such cases that the full value of the railway, 
and. as an element thereof, the value of the tangible property of the 
railway, would be a relevant and important factor in assisting the proper 
authority to determine whether the stocks and bonds to be issued were 
to have proper security behind them, and in such case, therefore, there 
should be the right and machinery to make a valuation of the physical 
property. 

NATIONAL CONTROL OF INTERSTATE COMMERCE 
CORPORATION. 

Another suggestion in respect to subordinate and ancillary machinery 
necessary to carry out Republican policies is that of the incorporation 
under National law or the licensing by National license or enforced 
registry of companies engaged in interstate trade. The fact is that 
nearly all corporations doing a commercial business are engaged in in- 
terstate commerce, and if they all were required to take out a Federal 
license or a Federal charter, the burden upon the interstate business of 
the country would become intolerable. 

SHOULD BE LIMITED TO SMALL PERCENTAGE BY 
CLASSIFICATION. 

It is necessary, therefore, to devise some means for classifying and 
insuring Federal supervision of such corporations as have the power 
and temptation to effect restraints of interstate trade and monopolies. 
Such corporations constitute a very small percentage of all engaged in 
interstate business. 

MR. ROOSEVELT'S PROPOSED CLASSIFICATION. 

With such classification in view, Mr. Roosevelt recommended an 
amendment to the anti-trust law, known as the Hepburn bill, which pro- 
vided for voluntary classification, and created a strong motive therefor 
by granting immunity from prosecution for reasonable restraints of in- 
terstate trade to all corporations which would register and submit them- 
selves to the publicity regulations of the Department of Commerce and 
Labor. 

THE DEMOCRATIC PROPOSED CLASSIFICATION. 

The Democratic platform suggests a requirement that corporations 
in interstate trade having control of 25 per cent, of the products in 
which they deal shall take out a Federal license. This classification 
would probably include a great many small corporations engaged in the 



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manufacture of special articles, or commodities whose total value is so> 
inconsiderable that they are not really within the purview or. real evil 
of the anti-trust law. 

It is not now necessary, however, to discuss the relative merit of 
such proposi lions, but it is enough merely to affirm the necessity for 
some method by which greater executive supervision can be given to the 
Federal Government over those businesses in which there is a temptation 
to violations of the anti-trust law. 

CONSTRUCTION OF ANTI-TRUST LAW.— POSSIBLE 
NECESSITY FOR AMENDMENT. 

The possible operation of the anti-trust law under existing rulings 
of the Supreme Court has given rise to suggestions for its necessary 
amendment to prevent its application to cases which it is believed were 
never in the contemplation of the framers of the statute. Take two 
instances : A merchant or manufacturer engaged in a legitimate business 
that covers certain States, wishes to sell his business and his good will, 
and so in the terms of the sale obligates himself to the purchaser not 
to go into the same business in those States. Such a restraint of trade 
has always been enforced at common law. Again, the employees of an 
interstate railway combine and enter upon a peaceable and lawful strike 
to secure better wages. At common law this was not a restraint of 
trade or commerce or a violation of the rights of the company or of 
the public. Neither case ought to be made a violation of the anti- 
trust law. My own impression is that the Supreme Court would hold 
that neither of these instances is within its inhibition, but, if they are to- 
be so regarded, general legislation amending the law is necessary. 

DEMOCRATIC PLANK TO LIMIT CORPORATIONS TO OWNER- 
SHIP OF FIFTY PER CENT. OF PLANT AND PRODUCT 
FAULTY. 

The suggestion of the Democratic platform that trusts be ended by 
forbidding corporations to hold more than 50 per cent, of the plant in 
any line of manufacture is made without regard to the possibility of 
enforcement or the real evil in trusts. A corporation controlling 45 or 
50 per cent, of the products may by well known methods frequently effect 
monopcly and stamp out competition in a part of the country as com- 
pletely as if it controlled 60 or 70 per cent, thereof. 

COMPULSORY SALE OF PRODUCTS AT FIXED PRICE 
IMPRACTICABLE. 

The proposal to compel every corporation to sell its commodities at 
the same price the country over, allowing for transportation, is utterly 



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impracticable. If it can be shown that in order to drive out competition, 
•a corporation owning a large part of the plant producing an article is 
selling in one part of the country, where it has competitors, at a low 
and unprofitable price, and in another part of the country, where it has 
none, at an exorbitant price, this is evidence that it is attempting an 
unlawful monopoly, and justifies conviction under the anti-trust law; 
but the proposal to supervise the business of corporations in such a 
way as to fix the price of commodities and compel the sale at such 
price is as absurd and socialistic a plank as was ever inserted in a 
Democratic political platform. 

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC 

POLICIES AND PLATFORMS: FORMER PROGRESSIVE 

AND REGULATIVE; LATTER RADICAL AND 

DESTRUCTIVE. 

The chief difference between the Republican and the Democratic 
platforms is the difference which has heretofore been seen between the 
policies of Mr. Roosevelt and those which have been advocated by the 
Democratic candidate, Mr. Bryan. Mr. Roosevelt's policies have been 
progressive and regulative; Mr. Bryan's destructive. Mr. Roosevelt has 
favored regula'.ion of the business in which evils have grown up so as 
to stamp out the evils and permit the business to continue. The tend- 
ency of Mr. Bryan's proposals has generally been destructive of the 
business with respect to which he is demanding reform. Mr. Roosevelt 
would compel the trusts to conduct their business in a lawful manner 
and secure the benefits of their operation and the maintenance of the 
prosperity of the country of which they are an important part ; while 
Mr. Bryan would extirpate and des'roy the entire business in order to 
stamp out the evils which they have practiced. 

ADVANTAGE OF COMBINATION OF CAPITAL. 

The combination of capital in large plants to manufacture goods 
with the greatest economy is just as necessary as the assembling of the 
parts of a machine to the economical and more rapid manufacture of 
what in old times was made by hard. The Government should not in- 
terfere with one any more than the other, when such aggregations of 
capital are legitimate and are properly controlled, for they are then 
the natural results of modern enterprise and are beneficial to the public. 
In the proper operation of competition the public will soon share with 
the manufacturer the advantage in economy of operation and lower 
prices. 

WHAT IS AN UNLAWFUL TRUST? 

When, however, such combinations are not based on any economic 
principle but are made merely for the purpose of controlling the market, 



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to maintain or raise prices, restrict output and drive out competitors, 
the public derives no benefit and we have a monopoly. There .must be 
some use by the company of the comparatively great size of its capital 
and plant and extent of its output, either to coerce persons to buy of it 
rather than of some competitor or to coerce those who would compete 
with it to give up their business. There must usually, in other words, 
be shown an element of duress in the conduct of its business toward 
the customers in the trade and its competitors before mere aggregation 
of capital or plant becomes an unlawful monopoly. It is perfectly con- 
ceivable that in the interest of economy of production a great number 
of plants may be legitimately assembled under the ownership of one 
corporation. It is important, therefore, that such large aggregations of 
capital and combination should be controlled so that the public may have 
the advantage of reasonable prices and that the avenues ' of enterprise 
may be kept open' to the individual and the smaller corporation wishing 
to engage in business. 

MERE AGGREGATION OF CAPITAL NOT A VIOLATION OF 
ANTI-TRUST LAW. 

In a country like this, where, in good times, there is an enormous 
floating capital awaiting investment, the period before which effective 
competition, by construction of new plants, can be introduced into any 
business, is comparatively short, rarely exceeding a year, and is usually 
even less than that. Existence of actual plant is not, therefore, neces- 
sary to potential competition. Many enterprises have been organized on 
the theory that mere aggregation of all, or nearly all, existing plants in 
a line of manufacture, without regard to economy of production, de- 
stroys competition. They have, most of them, gone into bankruptcy. 
Competition in a profitable business will not be affected by the mere 
aggregation of many existing plants under one company, unless the com- 
pany thereby effects great economy, the benefit of which it shares with 
the public, or takes some illegal method to avoid competition and to per- 
petuate a hold on the business. 

PROPER TREATMENT OF TRUSTS. 

Unlawful trusts should be restrained with all the efficiency of in- 
junctive process, and the persons engaged in maintaining them should 
be punished with all the severity of criminal prosecution, in order that 
the methods pursued in the operation of their business shall be brought 
within the law. To destroy them and to eliminate the wealth they rep- 
resent from the producing capital of the country would entail enormous 
loss, and would throw out of employment myriads of workingmen and 
working-women. Such a result is wholly unnecessary to the accomplish- 



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ment of the needed reform, and will inflict upon the innocent far greater 
punishment than upon the guilty. 

DESTRUCTIVE POLICY OF DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. 

The Democratic platform does not propose to destroy the plants of 
the trusts physically, but it proposes to do the same thing in a different 
way. The business of this country is largely dependent on a protective 
system of tariffs. The business done by many of the so-called "trusts" 
is protected with the other businesses of the country. The Democratic 
platform proposes to take off the tariff on all articles coming into com- 
petition with those produced by the so-called "trusts," and to put them 
on the free list. If such a course would be utterly destructive of their 
business, as is intended, it would not only destroy the trusts, but all 
of their smaller competitors. The ruthless and impracticable character 
of the proposition grows plainer as its effects upon the whole community 
are realized. 

EFFECT OF DEMOCRATIC PLANS ON BUSINESS. 

To take the course suggested by the Democratic platform in these 
matters is to involve the entire community, innocent as it is, in the 
punishment of the guilty, while our policy is to stamp out the specific 
evil. This difference between the policies of the two great parties is 
of especial importance in view of the present condition of business. 
After ten years of the most remarkable material development and pros- 
perity, there came a financial stringency, a panic and an industrial de- 
pression. This was brought about not only by the enormous expansion 
of business plants and business investments which could not be readily 
converted, but also by the waste of capital, in extravagance of living, 
in wars and other catastrophies. The free convertible capital was ex- 
hausted. In addition to this, the confidence of the lending public in 
Europe and in this country had been affected by the revelations of 
irregularity, breaches of trust, overissues of stock, violations of law, and 
lack of rigid State or national supervision in the management of our 
largest corporations. Investors withheld what loanable capital remained 
available. It became impossible for the soundest railroads and other 
enterprises to borrow money enough for new construction or recon- 
struction. 

WILL DELAY RESTORATION OF PROSPERITY. 

Gradually business is acquiring a healthier tone. Gradually all wealth 
which was hoarded is coming out to be used. Confidence in security 
of business investments is a plant of slow growth and is absolutely neces- 
sary in order that our factories may all open again, in order that our 



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unemployed may become employed, and in order that we may again have 
the prosperity which blessed us for ten years. The identity of the in- 
terests of the capitalist, the farmer, the business man and the wage 
earner in the security and profit of investments cannot be too greatly 
emphasized. I submit to those most interested, to wage earners, to 
farmers and to business men, whether the introduction into power of the 
Democratic party, with Mr. Bryan at its head, and with the business 
destruction that it openly advocates as a remedy for present evils, will 
bring about the needed confidence for the restoration of prosperity. 

REPUBLICAN DOCTRINE OF PROTECTION. 

The Republican doctrine of protection, as definitely announced by 
the Republican convention of this year and by previous conventions, is 
that a tariff shall be imposed on all imported products whether of the 
factory, farm or mine, sufficiently great to equal the difference between 
the cost of production abroad and at home, and that this difference 
should, of course, include the difference between the higher wages paid 
in this country and the wages paid abroad and embrace a reasonable 
profit to the American producer. A system of protection thus adopted 
and put in force has led to the establishment of a rate, of wages here 
that has greatly enhanced the standard of living of the laboring man. 
It is the policy of the Republican party permanen ly to continue that 
standard of living. In 1897 the Dingley Tariff Bill was passed, under 
which we have had, as already said, a period of enormous prosperity. 

NECESSITY FOR REVISION OF TARIFF. 

The consequent material development has greatly changed the condi- 
tions under which many articles described by the schedules of the tariff 
are now produced. The tariff in a number of the schedules exceeds the 
difference between the cost of production of such articles abroad and at 
home, including a reasonable profit to the American producer. The ex- 
cess over that difference serves no useful purpose, but offers a tempta- 
tion to those who would monopolize the production and the sale of such 
articles in this country, to profit by the excessive rate. On the other hand, 
there are some few other schedules in which the tariff is not sufficiently 
high to give the measure of protection which they should receive upon 
Republican principles, and as to these the tariff should be raised. A 
revision of the tariff undertaken upon this principle, which is at the 
basis of our present business system, begun promptly upon the incoming 
of the new administration, and considered at a special session with the 
preliminary investigations already begun by the appropriate committees 

<of the House and Senate will make the disturbance of business incident 

-to such a change as little as possible. 



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DEMOCRATIC TARIFF PLAN AND ITS BAD EFFECT ON 
BUSINESS CONDITIONS. 

The Democratic party in its platform has not had the courage of its 
previous convictions on the subject of the tariff, denounced by it in 1904 
as a system of the robbery of the many for the benefit of the few, 
but it does declare its intention to change the tariff with a view to 
reaching a revenue basis and thus to depart from the protective system. 
The introduction into power of a party with this avowed purpose can- 
not but halt the gradual recovery from our recent financial depression 
and produce business disaster compared with which our recent panic and 
depression will seem small indeed. 

THE FARMER AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. 

As the Republican platform says, the welfare of the farmer is vital 
to that of the whole country. One of the strongest hopes of returning 
prosperity is based on the business which his crops are to afford. He is 
vitally interested in the restraining of excessive and unduly discriminating 
railroad rates, in the enforcement of the pure food laws, in the promo- 
tion of scientific agriculture, and in increasing the comforts of country 
life, as by the extension of free Rural Delivery. The policies of the- 
present Administration, which have most industriously promoted all these 
objects, cannot fail to commend themselves to his approval; and it is- 
difficult to see how with his intelligent appreciation of the threat to 
business prosperity involved in Democratic success at the polls he can' 
do otherwise than give his full and hearty support to the continuation 
of the policies of the present Administration under Republican auspices. 

LABOR AND WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS DONE 

FOR IT. 

We come now to the question of labor. One important phase of 
the policies of the present Administration has been an anxiety to secure 
for the wage-earner an equality of opportunity and such positive statu- 
tory protection as shall place him on a level in dealing with his employer. 
The Republican party has passed an employers' liability act for inter- 
state railroads, and has established an eight hour law for government 
employees and on government construction. The essence of the reform 
effected by the former is the abolition of the fellow-servant rule, and 
the introduction of the comparative negligence theory by which an em- 
ployee injured in the service of his employer does not lose all his right 
to recover because of slight negligence on his part. Then there is the 
act providing for compensation for injury to government employees, to- 
gether with the various statutes requiring safety appliances upon inter- 



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state commerce railroads for the protection of their employees, and limit- 
ing the hours of their employment. These are all instances of the desire 
of the Republican party to do justice to the wage-earner. Doubtless 
a more comprehensive measure for compensation of government em- 
ployees will be adopted in the future ; the principle in such cases has been 
recognized, and in the necessarily somewhat slow course of legislation 
will be more fully embodied in definite statutes. 

INTEREST OF EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE DIFFER ONLY 
IN RESPECT TO TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT. 

The interests of the employer and the employee never differ except 
when it comes to a division of the joint profit of labor and capital into 
dividends and wages. This must be a constant source of periodical dis- 
cussion between the employer and the employee, as indeed are the other 
terms of the employment. 

ADVANTAGE OF UNION. 

To give to employees their proper position in such a controversy, 
to enable them to maintain themselves against employers having great 
capital, they may well unite, because in union there is strength and with- 
out it each individual laborer and employee would be helpless. The pro- 
motion of industrial peace through the instrumentality of the trade agree- 
ment is often one of the results of such union when intelligently con- 
ducted. 

OTHER LABOR. 

There is a large body of laborers, however, skilled and unskilled, 
who are not organized into unions. Their rights before the law are 
exactly the same as those of the union men, and are to be protected 
with the same care and watchfulness. 



RIGHTS OF LABOR. 

In order to induce their employer into a compliance with their re- 
quest for changed terms of employment, workmen have the right to 
strike in a body. They have a right to use such persuasion as they may, 
provided it does not reach the point of duress, to lead their reluctant 
co-laborers to join them in their union against their employer, and they 
have a right, if they choose, to accumulate funds to support those en- 
gaged in a strike, to delegate to officers the power to direct the action 
of the union, and to withdraw themselves and their associates from 
dealings with or giving custom to those with whom they are in con- 
troversy. 



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WHAT LABOR CAN NOT LAWFULLY DO. 

What they have not the right to do is to injure their employer's 
property, to injure their employer's business by use of threats or methods 
of physical duress against those who would work for him, or deal with 
him, or by carrying on what is sometimes known as a secondary boycott 
against his customers or those with whom he deals in business. All 
those who sympathize with them may unite to aid them in their struggle, 
but they may not through the instrumentality of a threatened or actual 
boycott compel third persons against their will and having no interest 
in their controversy to come to their assistance. These principles have 
for a great many years been settled by the courts of this country. 

Threatened unlawful injuries to business, like those described above, 
can only be adequately remedied by an injunction to prevent them. The 
jurisdiction of a court of equity to enjoin in such cases arises from the 
character of the injury and the method of inflicting it and the fact 
that suit for damages offers no adequate remedy. The unlawful injury 
is not usually done by one single act, which might be adequately com- 
pensated for in damages by a suit at law, but it is the result of a con- 
stantly recurring series of acts, each of which in itself might not con- 
stitute a substantial injury or make a suit at law worth while, and all 
of which would require a multiplicity of suits at law. • Injuries of this 
class have since the foundation of courts of equity been prevented by 
injunction. 

It has been claimed that injunctions do not issue to protect anything 
but property rights, and that business is not a property right ; but such 
a proposition is wholly inconsistent with all the decisions of the courts. 
The Supreme Court of the United States says that the injunction is a 
remedy to protect property or rights of a pecuniary nature, and we may 
well submit to the considerate judgment of all laymen whether the right 
of a man in his business is not as distinctly a right of a pecuniary 
nature as the right to his horse or his house or the stock of goods on 
his shelf; and the instances in which injunctions to protect business have 
been upheld by all courts are so many that it is futile further to discuss 
the proposition. 

It is difficult to tell the meaning of the Democratic platform upon 
this subject. It says : 

"Questions of judicial practice have arisen especially in connection with 
industrial disputes. We deem that the parties to all judicial proceedings 
should be treated with rigid impartiality, and that injunctions should not be 
issued in any cases in which injunctions would not issue if no industrial 
dispute were involved." 

This declaration is disingenuous. It seems to have been loosely 
drawn with the especial purpose of rendering it susceptible to one in- 



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'erpretation by one set of men and to a diametrically opposite interpreta- 
tion by another. It does not aver that injunctions should not issue in 
industrial disputes, but only that they should not issue merely because 
they are industrial disputes, and yet those responsible for the declaration 
must have known that no one has ever maintained that the fact that a 
dispute was industrial gave any basis for issuing an injunction in refer- 
ence thereto. 

The declaration seems to be drawn in its present vague and ambigu- 
ous shape in order to persuade some people that it is a declaration 
against the issuing of injunctions in any industrial dispute, while at the 
same time it may be possible to explain to the average plain citizen who 
objects to class distinctions that no such intention exists at all. Our 
position is clear and unequivocal. We are anxious to prevent even an 
appearance of any injustice to labor in the issuance of injunctions, not 
in a spirit of favoritism to one set of our fellow citizens, but of justice 
to all of our fellow citizens. The reason for exercising or refusing to 
exercise the power of injunction must be found in the character of the 
unlawful injury and not in the character or class of the persons who 
inflict this injury. 

The man who has a business which is being unlawfully injured is 
entitled to the remedies which the law has always given him, no matter 
who has inflicted the injuries. Otherwise, we shall have class legislation 
unjust in principle and likely to sap the foundations of a free government. 

NOTICE AND HEARING BEFORE ISSUE OF INJUNCTION. 

I come now to the question of notice before issuing an injunction. 
It is a fundamental rule of general jurisprudence that no man shall be 
affected by a judicial proceeding without notice and hearing. This rule, 
however, has sometimes had an exception in the issuing of temporary 
restraining orders commanding a defendant in effect to maintain the 
status quo until a hearing. Such a process should issue only in rare 
cases where the threatened change of the status quo would inflict irre- 
parable injury if time were taken to give notice and a summary hearing. 
The unlawful injury usual in industrial disputes, such as I have described, 
does not become formidable except after sufficient time in which to give 
the defendants notice and a hearing. I do not mean to say that there 
may not be cases even in industrial disputes where a restraining order 
might properly be issued without notice, but, generally, I think it is 
otherwise. In some State courts, and in fewer Federal courts, the prac- 
tice of issuing a temporary restraining order without notice merely to 
preserve the status quo on the theory that it won't hurt anybody, has 
been too common. Many of us recall that the practice has been pursued 
in other than industrial disputes, as, for instance, in corporate and stock 
controversies like those over the Erie Railroad, in which a stay order 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 21U 

without notice was regarded as a step of great advantage to the one 
who secured it, and a corresponding disadvantage to the one against 
whom it was secured. Indeed, the chances of doing justice on an ex- 
parte application are much increased over those when a hearing is • 
granted, and there may be circumstances under which it may affect the 
defendant to his detriment. In the case of a lawful strike, the sending 
df a formidable document restraining a number of defendants from doing 
v great many different things which the plaintiff avers they are threat- 
ening to do, often so discourages men always reluctant to go into a 
strike from continuing what is their lawful right. This has made the 
laboring man feel that an injustice is done in the issuing of a writ with- 
out notice. I conceive that in the treatment of this question it is the ■ 
duty of the citizen and the legislator to view the subject from the stand- 
point of the man who believes himself to be unjustly treated, as well as 
from that of the community at large. I have suggested the remedy of 
returning in such cases to the original practice under the old statute of 
the United States and the rules in equity adopted by the Supreme Court, 
which did not permit the issuing of an injunction without notice. In 
this respect, the Republican Convention has adopted another remedy, that, 
without going so far, promises to be efficacious in securing proper con- 
sideration in such cases by courts, by formulating into a legislative act 
the best present practice. 

Under this recommendation, a statute may be framed which shall 
define with considerable particularity, and emphasize the exceptional 
character of the cases in which restraining orders may issue without 
notice, and which shall also provide that when they are issued, they 
shall cease to be operative beyond a short period, during which time 
notice shall be served and a hearing had unless the defendant desires a 
postponement of the hearing. By this provision the injustice which has 
sometimes occurred by which a preliminary restraining order of widest 
application has been issued without notice, and the hearing of the motion : 
for the injunction has been fixed weeks and months after its date, coulcL 
not recur. 

SMALL NUMBER OF CASES FURNISHING GROUNDS FOR 
COMPLAINT IN FEDERAL COURT. 

The number of instances in which restraining orders without notice 
in industrial disputes have issued by Federal courts is small, and it is 
urged that they do not therefore constitute an evil to be remedied by 
statutory amendment. The small number of cases complained of above 
shows the careful manner in which most Federal judges have exercised' 
the jurisdiction, but the belief that such cases are numerous has been so 
widespread and has aroused such feeling of injustice that more definite 
specification in procedure to prevent recurrence of them is justified if it 
can be effected without injury to the administration of the law. 



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NO PROVISION IN DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM AS TO NOTICE; 
ONLY RECOMMENDATION TRIAL BY JURY. ' 

With respect to notice, the Democratic platform contains no recom- 
mendation. Its only intelligible declaration in regard to injunction suits 
is a reiteration of the plank in the platform of 1896 and 1904 providing 
that in prosecutions for contempt in Federal courts, where the violation 
of the order constituting the contempt charged is indirect, i. e., outside 
of the presence of the court, there shall be a jury trial. 

DANGEROUS ATTACK ON POWER OF COURTS. 

This provision in the platform of 1896 was regarded then as a most 
dangerous attack upon the power of the courts to enforce their orders 
and decrees, and it was one of the chief reasons for the defeat of the 
Democratic party in that contest, as it ought to have been. The extended 
operation of such a provision to weaken the power of the courts in the 
enforcement of its lawful orders can hardly be overstated. 

EFFECT OF JURY TRIAL. 

Under such a provision a recalcitrant witness who refuses to obey 
a subpoena may insist on a jury trial before the court can determine that 
he received the subpoena. A citizen summoned as a juror and refusing 
to obey the writ when brought into court must be tried by another jury 
to determine whether he got the summons. Such a provision applies not 
alone to injunctions, but to every order which the court issues against 
persons. A suit may be tried in the court of first instance and carried 
to the Court of Appeals, and thence to the Supreme Court, and a judg- 
ment and decree entered and an order issued, and then if the decree in- 
volves the defendant's doing anything or not doing anything, and he 
disobeys it, the plaintiff who has pursued his remedies in lawful course 
for years must, to secure his rights, undergo the uncertainties and the 
delays of a jury trial before he can enjoy that which is his right by the 
decision of tha highest court of the land. I say without hesitation that 
such a change will greatly impair the indispensable power and authority 
of the courts. In securing to the public the benefits of the new statutes 
enacted in the present Administration, the ultimate instrumentality to be 
resorted to is the courts of the United States. If now their authority 
is to be weakened in a manner never known in the history of the juris- 
prudence of England or America, except in the constitution of Oklahoma, 
how can we expect that such statutes will have efficient enforcement? 
Those who advocate this intervention of a jury in such cases seem 
to suppose that this change in some way will inure only to the benefit 
of the poor working man. As a matter of fact, the person -who will 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 221 

secure chief advantage from it is the wealthy and unscrupulous defend- 
ant, able to employ astute and cunning counsel and anxious to avoid 
justice. 

I have been willing, in order to avoid a popular but unfounded im- 
pression that a judge, in punishing for contempt of his own order, may 
be affected by personal feeling to approve a law which should enable 
the contemnor upon his application to have another judge sit to hear 
the charge of contempt, but this, with so many judges as there are 
available in the Federal court, would not constitute a delay in the en- 
forcement of the process. The character and efficiency of the trial would 
be the same. It is the nature and the delay of a jury trial in such cases 
that those who would wish to defy the order of the court would rely 
upon as a reason for doing so. 



MAINTENANCE OF FULL POWER OF COURTS NECESSARY 
TO AVOID ANARCHY. 

The administration of justice lies at the foundation of government. 
The maintenance of the authority of the courts is essential unless we 
are prepared to embrace anarchy. Never in the history of the country 
has there been such an insidious attack upon the judicial system as the 
proposal to interject a jury trial between all orders of the court made 
after full hearing and the enforcement of such orders. 



THE CURRENCY SYSTEM. 

The late panic disclosed a lack of elasticity in our financial system. 
This has been provisionally met by an act of the present Congress per- 
mitting the issue of additional emergency bank notes, and insuring their 
withdrawal when the emergency has passed by a high rate of taxation. 
It is drawn in conformity with the present system of bank note currency 
but varies from it in certain respects by authorizing the use of com- 
mercial paper and bonds of goo'd credit, as well as United States bonds, 
as security for its redemption. It is expressly but a temporary measure 
and contains a provision for the appointment of a currency commission 
to devise and recommend a new and reformed system of currency. This 
inadequacy of our present currency system, due to changed conditions and 
enormous expansion, is generally -recognized. The Republican platform 
well states that we must have a "more elastic and adaptable system to 
meet the requirements of agriculturists, manufacturers, merchants and 
business men generally, must be automatic in operation, recognizing the 
fluctuations in interest rates," in which every dollar shall be as good as 
gold, and which shall prevent rather than aid financial stringency in 
bringing on a panic. 



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POSJAL SAVINGS BANK AND ITS ADVANTAGES. 

In addition to this, the Republican platform recommends the adop- 
tion of a postal savings bank system in which, of course, the Government 
would become responsible to the depositors for the payment of principal! 
and interest. It is thought that the Government guaranty will bring out 
of hoarding places much money which may be turned into wealth pro- 
ducing capital, and that it will be a great incentive for thrift in the 
many small places in the country having now no savings bank facilities 
which are reached by the Post Office Department. It will bring to every 
one, however remote from financial centers, a place of perfect safety for 
deposits, with interest return. The bill now pending in Congress, which 
of course the Republican Convention had in mind, provides for the in- 
vestment of the money deposited in National banks in the very places in 
which it is gathered, or as near thereto as may be practicable. This is 
an answer to the criticism contained in the Democratic platform that 
under the system the money gathered in the country will be deposited 
in Wall Street banks. The system of postal savings banks has been tried 
in so many countries successfully that it cannot be regarded longer as a 
new and untried experiment. 

OBJECTIONS TO DEMOCRATIC PROPOSAL TO ENFORCE 
INSURANCE OF BANK DEPOSITS. 

The Democratic platform recommends a tax upon National banks 
and upon such State banks as may come in, in the nature of enforced 
insurance to raise a guaranty fund to pay the depositors of any bank, 
which fails. How State banks can be included in such a scheme under 
the constitution is left in the twilight zone of States rights and Feder- 
alism so frequently dimming the meaning and purpose of the promises- 
of the platform. If they come in under such a system, they must neces- 
sarily be brought within the closest National control, and so they must 
really cease to be State banks and become National banks. 

The proposition is to tax the honest and prudent banker to make up 
for the dishonesty and imprudence of others. No one can foresee the 
burden which under this system would be imposed upon the sound and 
conservative bankers of the country by this obligation to make good the 
losses caused by the reckless, speculative and dishonest men who would 
be enabled to secure deposits under such a system on the faith of the 
proposed insurance ; as in its present shape the proposal would remove 
all safeguards against recklessness in banking, and the chief, and in the 
end probably the only benefit would accrue to the speculator, who would 
be delighted to enter the banking business when it was certain that he 
could enjoy any profit that would accrue, while the risk would have to 
be assumed by his honest and hardworking fellow. In short, the pro- 



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posal is wholly impracticable unless it is to be accompanied by a com- 
plete revolution in our banking system, with a supervision so close as 
practically to create a government bank. If the proposal were adopted 
exactly as the Democratic platform suggests, it would bring the whole 
banking system of the country down in ruin, and this proposal is itself 
an excellent illustration of the fitness for national control of a party 
which will commit itself to a scheme of this nature without the slightest 
•sense of responsibility for the practical operation of the law proposed 

POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS MUCH TO BE PREFERRED. 

The Democratic party announces its adhesion to this plan, and only 
recommends the tried system of postal savings banks as an alternative 
if the new experimental panacea is not available. The Republican party 
prefers the postal savings bank as one tried, safe, and known to be 
effective, and as reaching many more people now without banking facili- 
ties than the new system proposed. 

VOLUNTARY PLAN FOR GUARANTY. 

A plan for a guaranty of deposits by the voluntary act of the banks 
involved has been favorably reported to the House of Representatives 
This is, of course, entirely different from the scheme in the Democratic 
platform, omitting, as it does, the feature of compulsory participation. 
This proposition will unquestionably receive the thoughtful consideration 
of the National Monetary Commission. 

REPUBLICAN POLICIES AS TO DEPENDENCIES. 

The Republican party has pursued consistently the policy originally 
adopted with respect to the dependencies which came to us as the result 
of the Spanish war. 

PORTO RICO. 

The material prosperity of Porto Rico and the progress of its in- 
habitants toward better conditions in respect to comfort of living and 
education, should make every American proud that this nation has been 
an efficient instrument in bringing happiness to a million people. 



CUBA. 

In Cuba, the provisional government established in order to* prevent 
a bloody revolution has so administered affairs and initiated the neces- 
sary laws as to make it possible to turn back the island f o the lawfully 
•elected officers of the Republic in February next. 



224 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



PHILIPPINES. 

In the Philippines the experiment of a national assembly has justi- 
fied itself, both as an assistance in the government of the islands and 
as an education in the practice of self-government to the people of the 
islands. We have established a government with effective and honest 
executive departments, and a clean and fearless administration of justice ; 
we have created and are maintaining a comprehensive school system 
which is educating the youth of the islands in English and in industrial 
branches; we have constructed great government public works, roads 
and harbors; we have induced the private construction of eight hundred 
miles of railroad; we have policed the islands so that their condition as 
to law and order is better now than it ever has been in their history. 
It is quite unlikely that the people, because of the dense ignorance of 
90 per cent., will be ready for complete self-government and independence 
before two generations have passed, but the policy of increasing partial 
self-government step by step as the people shall show themselves fit 
for it should be continued. 

PROPOSITION OF DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM MEANS CHAOS. 

The proposition of the Democratic platform is to turn over the 
islands as soon as a stable government is established. This has been 
established. The proposal then is in effect to turn them over at once. 
Such action will lead to ultimate chaos in the islands and the progress 
among the ignorant masses in education and better living will stop. 
We are engaged in the Philippines in a great missionary work that does 
our nation honor, and is certain to promote in a most effective way the 
influence of Christian civilization. It is cowardly to lay down the burden 
until our purpose is achieved. 

HOPE OF PROSPERITY IN CHANGE IN TARIFF RECOM- 
MENDED BY REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. 

Many unfortunate circumstances beyond human control have delayed 
the coming of business prosperity to the islands. Much may be done 
in this regard by increasing the trade between the islands and the 
United States, under tariff laws permitting reciprocal free trade in the 
respective products of the two countries, with such limitations as to 
sugar and tobacco imported into the United States as will protect 
domestic interests. The admission of 350,000 tons of sugar from the 
Philippine Islands in a foreign importation of 1,600,000 tons, will have 
no effect whatever upon the domestic sugar interests of the United 
. States, and yet such an importation from the Philippine Islands, not 



FOURTEENTH -REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 22«% 

likely to be reached in ten years, will bring about the normal state of . 
prosperity in these islands in reference to sugar culture. 

The same thing is true of a similar limitation on the importation 
of tobacco. It is not well for the Philippines to develop the sugar in- 
dustry to such a point that the business of the islands shall be absorbed 
in it, because it makes a society in which there are wealthy landowners, 
holding very large estates, with valuable and expensive plants, and a 
large population of unskilled labor. In such a community there is no 
farming or middle class tending to build up a conservative, self-respect- 
ing community, capable of self-government. There are many other pro- 
ducts, notably that of Manila hemp, to which the energy of the islands 
can be, and is being, directed, the cultivation of which develops the class 
of small and intelligent farmers, 

MISCONCEPTION AS TO ANNUAL COST OF PHILIPPINES. 

One misconception of fact with respect to our Philippine policy is 
that it is costing the people of the United States a vast annual sum. 
The expenses of the war in the Philippines from 1898 to 1902 involved 
the Government in an expenditure of less than $175,000,000. This was 
incident to war. The fact is that since the close of the war in 1902 
and the restoration of order in the islands, the extra cost of the American, 
troops of the regular army in the islands, together with that of main- 
taining about 4,000 Philippine scouts as a part of the regular army, does 
not exceed $6,000,000 annually. This is all the expense to which the 
United States has been put for five or six years last past. The expenses 
of the Civil Government in the islands since its establishment have 
been met entirely from the proceeds of taxes collected in the islands, 
with but one notably generous and commendable exception when the 
Congress of the United States appropriated $3,000,000 in 1902 to relieve 
the inhabitants of the islands from the dangers of famine and distress 
caused by the death from rinderpest of three-fourths of the cattle of 
the islands. 

VETERANS OF COUNTRY'S WARS. 

Both platforms declare, as they should, in favor of generous pensions 
for the veterans of the Civil and Spanish wars. I stop to note the pres- 
ence here of a body of veterans of Ohio, and to express my thanks for 
the honor they do me in coming. I am lacking in one qualification of 
all Republican Presidents since Lincoln, that of having been exposed to 
danger and death on the field of battle in defense of our country. I 
hope that this lack will not make the veterans think I am any less 
deeply thrilled by the memory of their great comrades gone before — 
Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison and McKinley, all sons of Ohio, who 
left records reflecting glory upon their State and nation, or that my 
sympathies with the valor and courage and patriotism of those who 



226 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

faced death in the country's crises are any less earnest and sincere than 
they would be had I the right to wear a button of the Grand Army 
or of the veteran association of any of our country's wars. 

THE RIGHTS AND PROGRESS OF THE NEGRO. 

The Republican platform refers to the amendments to the Constitu- 
tion that were passed by the Republican party for the protection of the 
Negro. The Negro, in the forty years since he was freed from slavery, 
has made remarkable progress. He is becoming a more and more valu- 
able member of the communities in which he lives. The education of 
the Negro is being expanded and improved in every way. The best 
men of both races, at the North as well as at the Soutb, ought to re- 
joice to see growing up among the Southern people an influential 
element disposed to encourage the Negro in his hard struggle for indus- 
trial independence and assured political status. The Republican platform, 
adopted at Chicago, explicitly demands justice for all men without re- 
gard to race or color, and just as explicitly declares for the enforcement, 
and without reservation, in letter and spirit of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth 
and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. It is needless to state 
that I stand with my party squarely on that plank in the platform, and 
believe that equal justice to all men, and the fair and impartial enforce- 
ment of these amendments is in keeping with the real American spirit 
of fair play. 

ARMY AND NAVY. 

Mr. McKinley and Mr. Roosevelt, and the Republican party, have 
constantly advocated a policy with respect to the Army and Navy that 
will keep this Republic ready at all times to defend her territory and 
her doctrines, and to assure her appropriate part in promoting permanent 
tranquility among the nations. I welcome from whatever motive the 
change in the Democratic attitude toward the maintenance and support 
of an adequate Navy, and hope that in the next platform the silence of 
the present platform, in respect to the Army, will be changed to an 
acquiescence in its maintenance to the point of efficiency in connection 
with the efficiently reorganized militia and the National volunteers, for 
the proper defense of the country in times of war, and the discharge 
of those duties in times of peace for which the Army, as at present con- 
stituted, has shown itself so admirably adapted in the Philippines, in San 
Francisco, in Cuba, and elsewhere. We are a world power and cannot 
help it, and, although at peace with all the world and secure in the con- 
sciousness that the American people do not desire and will not pro- 
voke a war with any other country, we must be prudent and not be 
lulled into a sense of security which would possibly expose us to national 
humiliation. Our best course therefore is to insist on a constant im- 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 227 

provement in our navy and its maintenance at the highest point oi 
efficiency. 

PROTECTION OF CITIZENS ABROAD. 

The position which our country has won under Republican adminis- 
trations before the world should inure to the benefit of every one, even 
the humblest of those entitled to look to the American flag for pro- 
tection, without regard to race, creed or color, and whether he is a 
citizen of the United States or of any of our dependencies. • In some 
countries with which we are on friendly terms, distinctions are made 
in respect to the treatment of our citizens traveling abroad and having 
passports of our Executive, based on considerations that are repugnant 
to the principles of our Government and civilization. The Republican 
party and administration will continue to make every proper endeavor 
to secure the abolition of such distinctions, which in our eyes are both 
needless and opprobrious. 

ASIATIC IMMIGRATION. 

In the matter of the limitation upon Asiatic immigration, referred 
to in the Democratic platform, it is sufficient to say that the present Re- 
publican Administration has shown itself able, by diplomatic negotiation, 
and without unnecessary friction with self-respecting governments, to 
minimize the evils suggested, and a subsequent Republican Administra- 
tion may be counted on to continue the same policy. 

CONSERVATION OF NATIONAL RESOURCES. 

The conservation of National resources is a subject to which the 
present Administration has given especial attention. The necessity for 
a comprehensive and systematic improvement of our waterways, the 
preservation of our soil, and of our forests, the securing from private 
appropriation the power in navigable streams, the retention of the un- 
disposed of coal lands of the Government from alienation, all will prop- 
erly claim from the next Administration earnest attention and appro- 
priate legislation. 

NATIONAL HEALTH BUREAU. 

I have long been of opinion that the various agencies of the National 
Government established for the preservation of the National health, scat- 
tered through several departments, should be rendered more efficient 
by uniting them in a bureau of the Government under a competent head, 
and that I understand to be, in effect, the recommendation of both 
parties. 



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PUBLICITY OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND 
EXPENDITURES. 

Another plank of the Democratic ,- platform refers to the failure of 
the Republican Convention to express an opinion in favor of the pub- 
licit)' of contributions received and expenditures made in elections. Here 
again we contrast our opponents' promises with our own acts. Great 
improvement has taken place under Republican auspices in respect to 
the collection and expenditure of money for this purpose. The old and 
pernicious system of levying" a tax on the salaries of Government em- 
ployees in order to pay the expenses of the party in control of the 
Administration has been abolished by statute. By a law passed by the 
Republican Congress in 1907, contributions from corporations to in- 
fluence or pay the expenses connected with the election of presidential 
electors or of members of Congress is forbidden under penalty. 

A resident of New York has been selected as treasurer of the Re- 
publican National Committee, who was treasurer of the Republican 
State Committee when Governor Hughes was elected in New York, and 
who made a complete statement within twenty days after the election, 
as required by the New York law, of the contributions received by him 
and the expenditures made by him or under his authority in connection 
with that election. His residence and the discharge of his duties in the 
State of New York subject him to the law of that State as to all re- 
ceipts of the treasury of the National Committee from whatever source 
and as to all its disbursements. His returns will be under the obliga- 
tions and penalties of the law, and a misstatement by him or the filing 
of a false account will subject him to prosecution for perjury and viola- 
tion of the statute. Of course, under the Federal law, he is not per- 
mitted to receive any contributions from corporations. 

If I am elected President, I shall urge upon Congress with every 
hope of success, that a law be passed requiring a filing in a Federal 
office of a statement of the contributions received by committees and 
candidates in elections for members of Congress, and in such other elec- 
tions as are constitutionally within the control of Congress. Meantime 
the Republican party by the selection of a New York treasurer has 
subjected all its receipts and expenditures to the compulsory obligation 
of such a law. 

INCOME TAX. 

The Democratic platform demands two constitutional amendments 
one providing for an income tax, and the other for the election of 
Senators by the people. In my judgment, an amendment to the Consti- 
tution for an income tax is not necessary. I believe that an income tax, 
when the protective system of customs and the internal revenue tax shall 
not furnish income enough for governmental needs, can and should be 



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devised which under the decisions of the Supreme Court will conform 
to the Constitution. 

ELECTION OF SENATORS. 

With respect to the election of Senators by the people, personally 
I am inclined to favor it, but it is hardly a party question. A resolution 
in its favor has passed a Republican House of Representatives several 
times and has been rejected in a Republican Senate by the votes of 
Senators from both parties. It has been approved by the Legislatures 
of many Republican States. In a number of States, both Democratic and 
Republican, substantially such a system now prevails. 

INACCURACY AND INSINCERITY OF DEMOCRATIC CHARGES 

OF EXTRAVAGANCE IN INCREASE OF OFFICES AND 

EXPENDITURES. 

Our opponents denounce the Republican party for increasing the 
number of offices 23,000, at a cost of sixteen millions of dollars, during 
the last year. Such denunciation is characteristic of the Democratic 
platform. It fails to specify in any way what the offices are, and leaves 
the inference that the increase was resisted by the representatives of 
Democracy in Congress. As a matter of fact, the net number of offices 
increased was just about half the number stated; the increase was due 
chiefly to the enlargement of the Navy, the construction of the Panama 
Canal, the extension of the Rural Free Delivery, and to the new offices 
necessary in the enforcement of the pure food, meat inspection, railroad 
rate regulation, arid land reclamation, forest preservation and other 
measures which Congress passed with almost unanimous popular ap- 
proval. The Democratic platform so far from attacking any of this 
legislation specifically approves much, and condemns none of it, and it 
is of course disingenuous to claim credit for approving legislation and 
yet to denounce the expenditures necessary to give it effect. 

CHARGE OF DEFICIT. 

Again, it charges that a deficit of sixty millions of dollars between 
the receipts and expenditures during the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1908, occurred. As explained by the Secretary of the Treasury, at least 
half of this deficit is only an apparent one. The falling off in receipts 
was, of course, occasioned by the unusual panic, but there is ample free 
money in the Treasury to meet the difference, and the difference itself 
is not half of it properly a deficit, because involved in it was the retire- 
ment of some thirty-three millions of the bonds of the Government. 

During the past seven years the income and expenditures of the 
Government have been nearly equal, some years showing a surplus, and 



230 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THK 

others fewer in number a deficit. Taking one year with another, includ- 
ing this year, there has been an average surplus. The surplus last year, 
for instance, was greater than the deficit this year, so that, in fact, 
under the present administration there has been no deficit but a surplus 
which is actually in the Treasury. 

The Democratic platform nowhere points out the expenditures which 
might be reduced or avoided. It would be found generally that to the 
increases which have occurred, Democratic representatives in Congress 
made no opposition, but rather supported the measures providing them ; 
and now the party has not the courage to indicate what part of govern- 
ment cost it would end. It joins the Republican party specifically in 
approving the outlay of $150,000,000 as pensions. It expressly favors also 
the cost of greatly increased River and Harbor improvements, the cost 
of doubling the Navy, and of many other enterprises to "which it urges 
the Government. Its attack, therefore, has nothing in it either of fair- 
ness or sincerity. 



HIGH CHARACTER AND EFFICIENCY OF ADMINISTRATION. 

The truth is that it is known of all fair-minded men that there 
never has been an administration in the Government more efficiently 
conducted, more free from scandal, and in which the standard of official 
duty has been set higher than in the present Republican Administration, 
which the Democratic platform has thus denounced. It has. had to meet 
the problems arising from the enormous expansion of Government func- 
tions under new legislative measures as well as in the new dependencies, 
and in the greatest constructive work of modern times, the Panama 
Canal, and its members may well feel a just pride in the exceptional 
record for efficiency, economy, honesty and fidelity which it has made. 
We may rely upon our record in this regard in an appeal to the Am* 
erican people for their approval. 

The foreign policy of this country under the present Administration 
has greatly contributed to the peace of the world. The important part 
the Administration took in bringing about an end of the Russian-Jap- 
anese War by a treaty honorable to both parties and the prevention of 
wars in Central America and Cuba are striking instances of this. The 
arbitration treaties signed with all the important nations of the world 
mark a great step forward in the development of the usefulness of The 
Hague tribunal. The visit of Secretary Root to South America empha- 
sized our friendship for our sister Republics which are making such 
strides in the South Hemisphere, and met with a most cordial and 
gratifying response from our Latin-American colleagues. The assistance 
which we are rendering in Santo Domingo to enable that Government to 
meet its obligations and avoid anarchy is another instance of successful 
work of this Administration in helping our neighbors. 



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This Administration has by the promptness, skill and energy of its 
negotiations secured dominion in the Canal Zone of the Isthmus of 
Panama, without which the construction of the canal would have been 
impossible. It has subdued the heretofore insurmountable obstacle of 
disease and made the place of work healthy. It has created such an 
organization that in six years certainly, and probably in less, the At- 
lantic and Pacific will be united, to the everlas'ing benefit of the world's 
commerce and the effectiveness of our Navy will be doubled. 

The mere statement of the things actually done by this Administra- 
tion at home, in our dependencies, and in foreign affairs shows a marvel 
of successful accomplishment, and if ever a party has entitled itself to 
the approval of its works by a renewed mandate of power from the 
people whom it served, it is the Republican party in the present cam- 
paign. 

The only respect in which nothing has been done is in the develop- 
ment of our foreign marine. As long as we uphold the system of pro- 
tection for our home industries we must recognize that it is ineffectual 
to assist those of our citizens engaged in the foreign shipping business, 
because there is no feasible means of excluding foreign competition, 
and that the only other method of building up such a business is by 
direct aid in the form of a mail subsidy. I am in favor of the bill con- 
sidered in the last Congress as a tentative step. The establishment of 
direct steamship lines between our Atlantic ports and South America 
would certainly do much to develop a trade that might be made far 
greater. On the Pacific, the whole shipping trade threatens to pass into 
the control of Japan. Something ought to be done, and the bill which 
failed was a step in the right direction. 



INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS. 

The Democratic party under its present leadership in previous cam- 
paigns has manifested a willingness to embrace any doctrine which 
would win votes, with little sense of responsibility for its practical opera- 
tion. In its striving for success it has ignored the business prosperity 
of the country, has departed from sound economic and governmental 
principles, and has reversed its own traditional views of constitutional 
construction. Patriotic members of the party have refused to be con- 
trolled by party ties, and have either refrained from voting or have 
supported the Republican candidate. May we not appeal to these cour- 
ageous and independent citizens again to give us their support in this 
campaign, because the reasons for their breaking the bonds of party are 
stronger today than ever before? 



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LENGTH OF SPEECH MADE NECESSARY BY NUMEROUS 

ISSUES. 

I have now reviewed at great length the principles at issue between 5 
the two parties. When I began the preparation of this speech of accept- 
ance I had hoped to make it much briefer than it is, but I found on an 
examination of the platform and on a consideration of the many measures 
passed during the present Administration and the issues arising out of 
them, that it was impossible to deal with the subjects comprehensively 
with proper explanation and qualification in a short discussion. This 
is my excuse. 

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PARTIES: PROSPERITY WITH 

REPUBLICAN SUCCESS; BUSINESS DISASTER 

WITH DEMOCRATIC VICTORY. 

I have pointed out that the attitude of the Republican party with 
reference to evils which have crept in, due to the enormous material 
expansion of this country, is to continue the Roosevelt policies of pro- 
gress and regulation, while the attitude of the Democratic party under 
its present leadership is the change for the sake of change to the point 
of irresponsible destruction, and that there is no hope whatever of a 
restoration of prosperity in returning it to power. As said in our plat- 
form, we Republicans go before the country asking the support, not only 
of those who have acted with us heretofore, but of all our fellow-citizens 
who, regardless of past political differences, unite in the desire to main- 
tain the policies, perpetuate the blessings and make secure the achieve- 
ments of a greater America. 



ADDRESS OF HON. JULIUS C. BURROWS, 
OF MICHIGAN, 

Notifying Mr. Sherman of his Nomination for Vice- 
President at Utica, New York, August 18, 1908. 

Mr. Sherman: — Though the proceedings of the late National Re- 
publican Convention, and the result of its deliberations, are masters of 
common knowledge, yet courtesy and custom moved the Convention to 
the appointment of the Committee now present, to formally notify you 
of its action in selecting you as the nominee of the Republican party 
for the high and important office of Vice-President of the United States, 
for the term of four years, from the 4th of March, 1909. It will be 
gratifying to you to know that your selection was not the result of a 
sudden impulse, but the deliberate and mature judgment of that great 
Convention speaking for the Republican party from every State and 
Territory of the Republic. The members of this Committee, coming 
from every part of the country, are able to convey to you the gratifying 
assurance that your nomination receives the hearty approval of the con- 
stituency they represent and the promise of united and enthusiastic sup- 
port at the approaching election. The unanimity with which you were 
nominated was a fitting tribute to your worth as a man and a citizen 
and a just recognition of your long and valuable services to the party 
and the country. Repeatedly commissioned by the people of your district 
to a seat in the National House of Representatives, where you have 
served with distinction for nearly twenty years, participating in the de- 
liberations of that body and bearing a conspicuous part in shaping the 
policy of your party and the country, you were regarded as pre-emi- 
nently fitted for the discharge of the important duties incident to the 
office of Vice-President of the United States. As the constitutional pre- 
siding officer of the Senate, you will bring to the discharge of that 
exalted position a wide experience in public affairs and a thorough 
knowledge of parliamentary law which will enable you to conduct its 
proceedings with dignity and despatch, and so sustain its high character 
as the greatest legislative body in the world. While the ordinary duties 
incident to the office of Vice-President are not onerous, yet circum- 
stances may arise in the mutations of human affairs by which the position 
may become one of the highest concern. The framers of the Constitu- 
tion, with that wisdom and foresight which characterized their deliber- 
ations, sought to provide for such contingencies as might arise in the 
course of human events, and to that end provided that "in case of the 
removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or in- 
ability to discharge the affairs and duties of his office, the same shall 

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234 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

devolve upon the Vice-President." Five times during the history of the 
country, a vacancy has occurred in the office of President by the death 
of the incumbent. Five times has the Vice-President been called upon 
to discharge the duties of President of the United States, and if in the 
mysterious dispensation of Providence such responsibility should come 
to you, your long experience in public life, and familiarity with national 
affairs, your mature judgment and patriotic impulses would be a guar- 
antee of the continuance of a wise administration and insure the safety 
and well-being of the Republic. Of the platform adopted by the Con- 
vention, you are fully advised, and the principles therein enunciated will,, 
we are sure, receive your hearty approval, and we confidently expect 
and believe the candidates and the platform, will at the approaching 
election, receive the triumphant endorsement of the American people. 
And here the functions of the committee might properly terminate with 
its cordial congratulation and felicitation upon your restoration to 
accustomed health, but Mr. Bryan in his recent speech of acceptance to 
the Committee notifying him of his nomination as the candidate of the 
Democratic party for the office of President, presented what he regarded 
as the paramount issue of the campaign in the question, — "Shall the 
people rule?" which demands a passing notice. This query is a thinly 
disguised charge that under the administration of the Republican party 
"the rule of the people" is suppressed and, by inference, that the only 
way by which "the rule of the people" can be secured and maintained 
is by the restoration of the Democratic party to public control. The 
people may be pardoned if they are somewhat incredulous as to the 
efficiency of such a remedy as they remember that that party went out 
of power by reason of its failure to enforce "the rule of the people," 
solemnly expressed and permitted the republic to drift into the most 
stupendous conflict of the century involving the very existence of popular 
government. 

But wherein, may I ask, have the people not been permitted to rule? 
First, it is charged in the failure of the Republican party to take the 
necessary steps to amend the Constitution of the United States so as 
to provide for the election of United States Senators by a direct vote 
of the people. Without discussing the merits of the proposition or the 
reasons which actuated the framers of the Constitution in conferring this 
power upon the State Legislatures, it is sufficient for this occasion to 
say that the end sought to be attained is already practically secured by 
the action of many, if not a majority, of the states in providing a method 
by which the will of the people in the selection of United States Sen- 
ators may be ascertained and promulgated. In view of this fact, the 
query, "Shall the people rule?" would seem to be already practically 
answered. 

Secondly, Mr. Bryan says : "An effort has been made to secure 
legislation requiring publicity as to campaign contributions and expendit- 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 235 

nres; but the Republican leaders, even in the face of an indignant public, 
refuses to consent to a law which would compel honesty in elections." 

A brief history of this attempted legislation will disclose who "re- 
fused to consent to a law which could compel honesty in elections." 
"What are the facts? A publicity bill was reported from a Republican 
committee to a Republican House, which, however, amended it so as to 
"broaden its scope, by requiring members of Congress elected to disclose 
whether the people in their district were permitted freely to exercise 
the right of suffrage, and if that right was denied, the extent to which the 
vote was suppressed and the methods by which it was accomplished. 
As thus amended, the bill passed the House of Representatives, and, 
coming to the Senate, was referred to the Committee on Privileges and 
Elections, where its enactment was opposed by the Democra'ic members 
of that committee, and its passage by the Senate made impossible by the 
known and declared hostility of Democratic senators. This hostility 
arose out of the amendment in the House to the committee's bill be- 
cause Democratic senators saw in this amendment the shadow of a con- 
stitutional provision which might possibly affect representation in those 
states where the right to vote is not freely exercised. That provision 
of the constitution is as follows : "When the right to vote at any elec- 
tion for the choice of representatives in Congress is denied to any of 
the male inhabi ants of such state, being 21 years of age and citizens 
of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation 
in rebellion or any other crime, the basis of representation therein shall 
be reduced in the proportion which the number of such citizens shall 
bear to the whole number of male citizens 21 years of age in such 
state." This measure is not the law today because the Democratic min- 
ority successfully resisted its enactment. It is proper to say io this 
connection, that the then Secretary of War, Mr. Taft, in a communica- 
tion to me as chairman of the committee, which communica'ion I now 
liold, urged in the strongest terms possible the passage of the broadest 
measure providing for the publicity of campaign expenses. 

It was the judgment of the Republican members of the committee 
that the suppression of the qualified voters of any state was quite as 
destructive "to the rule of the people" as the legitimate use of money 
in defraying the necessary expenses of the campaign. In complete refu- 
tation of the charge of Mr. Bryan that Republicans "refuse to consent 
to a law which would. compel honesty in elections" I submit the follow- 
ing letter addressed to Senator Johnston of Alabama : 

MAY 28, 1908. 
"My Dear Senator:— 

Replying to your note without date relating to the reporting and passage of a 
Publicity Bill, I would say that I have conferred with the Republican members cf the 
Committee on Privileges and Elections, and am authorized to say in their behalf 
lhat they favor a Publicity Bill and that if the Democratic members of the Committee 



236 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

will join in reporting the bill (H. R. 20112) as it was passed *y the House of 
Representatives, the bill will be reported at once and promptly put upon its passage 
in the Senate. Yours truly, 

(Signed) J. C. BURROWS, 

Chairman of Committee." 

And finally, Mr. Bryan declares that the third instrumentality em- 
ployed to defeat the will of the people is found in the rules of the 
House of Representatives, and then quotes approvingly from his party 
platform: "We have observed with amazement the popular branch of 
our federal government helpless to obtain either the consideration or 
enactment of measures desired by a majority of its members," So far 
from this statement being correct, it can be said with absolute truth that 
not until the adoption of the rules for the government of the House of 
Representatives under Republican administration was it possible to obtain 
either consideration or enactment of measures desired by a majority. 

Under the old methods of administration, "the rule of the people" 
could not be carried out and necessary legislation could not be enacted. 
Mr, Sherman, you and I have stood at our posts of duty in the national 
House of Representatives day after day and night after night, week in 
and week out, in our efforts to secure the enactment of measures de- 
sired by a majority of the members, and have seen that majority thwarted 
and overthrown by the refusal of the Democratic members to respond to 
their names on roll call, thereby paralyzing the House by destroying its 
quorum. Under such a system of rules, the people never ruled and 
never could rule. When, however, Thomas B. Reed became speaker of 
the House of Representatives and asserted the right to count members 
.present and not voting for the purpose of ascertaining whether a quorum 
was present, from that time the House of Representatives was able, and 
Jias ever since been able to "respond to the demands of the people and con- 
-sidenand enact measures desired by a majority of its members." Never 
did the people rule so absolutely as today in that great forum of the 
people. If it be true that the rules of the House of Representatives 
are-destructive of popular government, the Democratic party must share 
-the, responsibility, for upon its ascension to power, and the election of 
3peaker. Crisp .of Georgia, it immediately adopted the same rules and 
enforced; thein with, the utmost vigor. 

But,,- I .will not prolong these functions. "Shall the people rule?"" 
That question was settled and settled forever nearly a half a century .ago 
when Abraham Lincoln, standing at the. sacrificial, altar on the battle- 
field of Gettysburg, declared that "This nation, under God, shall have a 
new^.. pjrt.fr of. freedom and the government of the people, by the people, 
for the people shall not perish from the earth." "Shall the people rule?" 
Mr. Bryan 'will-- -read his answer in the election returns at the close of 
the contest when the bleak winds of November shall whistle through the 
clismantled /and abandoned headquarters of the Democratic party, and the 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. '231 

people proclaim their sovereign rule in the triumphant election of T-aft 
and Sherman. 



MR. SHERMAN'S REPLY. 

In accepting the nomination for Vice-President, Mr. Sherman spoke 
as follows : 
Senator Burrows and Gentlemen of the Notification Committee : 

Your chairman, speaking for the committee, has notified me of my 
nomination by the Republican national convention, held in Chicago in 
June, as the party's candidate for Vice-President. As I chanced to be 
in Chicago in June, I had an inkling of the convention's action, which 
was confirmed by a warm-hearted reception tendered me by my neigh- 
bors on the occasion of my home-coming on July 2. 

IN ACCORD WITH MR. TAFT. 

This official notification, however, is welcome and the nomination 
you tender me is accepted; accepted with a gratitude commensurate with 
the great honor conferred; accepted with a full appreciation of the 
obligations which accompany that honor, an honor greater because my 
name is linked with that of William H. Taft, whom I respect and 
esteem highly and who approaches the high office of President excep- 
tionally well equipped to discharge the duties and bear the varied and 
weighty responsibilities of that exalted position. My acceptance could 
not be made with honor unless I were in full accord with the declara- 
tion of principles adopted by the convention. Not only am I in full 
and complete accord with my party's platform, but I endorse every word 
of the statement made by Mr. Taft in his address of acceptance wheii 
notified of his nomination as the Republican candidate for President. 

That speech fully and comprehensively discusses the issues of this, 
campaign as presented by the platforms of the two great parties, so that 
it is appropriate that my statement should be short. Those not convinced 
by the presentation of Mr. Taft I could not hope to persuade. It is. 
however, in conformity with custom that I refer at least briefly to some 
of the important issues of the campaign. 

A DISCUSSION OF THE TARIFF ISSUE. 

First, then, let me say that I am a protectionist. I am sufficiently 
practical to value the utility of a fact higher than the beauty of a theory, 
and I am a protectionist because experience has demonstrated that the 
application of that principle has lifted us as a Nation to a plane of 
prosperity above that occupied by any other people. 



238 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

I especially commend that plank of our platform which promises an 
early revision of tariff schedules. That pledge will be fulfilled in an 
adjustment based in every particular upon the broad principles of pro- 
tection for all American interests; alike for labor, for capital, for pro- 
ducers and consumers. The Dingley Bill, when enacted, was well adapted 
to the then existing conditions. The developments of industrial pros- 
perity in a decade, which in volume and degree have surpassed our most 
roseate expectations., have so altered conditions that in certain details 
of schedules they no longer in every particular mete out justice to all. 
In this readjustment the principle of protection must and will govern; 
such duties must and will be imposed as will equalize the cost of produc- 
tion at home and abroad and insure a reasonable profit to all American 
interests. The Republican idea of such a profit embraces not alone the 
manufacturer, not alone the capital invested, but all engaged -in American 
production, the employer and employed, the artisan, the farmer, the 
miner and those engaged in transportation and trade ; broadly speaking, 
those engaged in every pursuit and calling which our tariff directly or 
indirectly affects. During a statutory application of this principle, pros- 
perity has abided wi'.h us. When a revenue tariff has been the law, 
adversity and want have been our portion. Our Democratic brethren, 
whose memories are as short as their promises are frail, and who have 
always exhibited a lack of capacity to profit by experience, unmindful of 
the distress and destruction that arrived and departed with the last 
Democratic administration, declare in their platform that they favor such 
"immediate revision of * * * schedules as may be necessary to re- 
store the tariff to a revenue basis." A "revenue basis," a "tariff for 

revenue only," "ultimate free trade" all have an identical meaning; 

that meaning being an assault upon American industries, an attack upon 
the American wage scale, a lessening demand for the products of Am- 
erican soil and American toil; less work, less pay, less of the necessaries 
and comforts of life. In the light of history, what issue of the campaign 
so vitally affects American citizens? Experience, that effective teacher 
— effective save with the one-man power now parading under the title 
of the Democratic party — has taught the Nation a valuable lesson and 
the result of the coming November election will once more prove the 
American people to be apt scholars. What the laborer of the land, skilled 
and unskilled, desires is the opportunity at all times to exchange his 
brain and brawn for good pay in good money. A protective tariff and 
the gold standard, both now the existing achievements of the Republican 
party, in spite of Democratic opposition, give the laborer that opportunity. 

ENACTMENTS FOR LABOR. 

The Republican party believes in the equality of all men before the 
law ; believes in granting labor's every request that does not seek to 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 239 

accord rights to one man denied to another. Fair-minded labor asks no 
more, no less, and approves the record of the Republican party because 
of that party's acts. 

I have helped to make my party's record in the enactment of the 
Eight-Hour Law, the Employers' Liability Act, the statutes to minimize 
the hazard of railroad employes, the Child Labor Law for the District 
of Columbia, and other enactments designed especially to improve the 
conditions of labor. I cannot hope to better state my position on injunc- 
tions than by a specific endorsement of Mr. Taft's Cincinnati declaration 
on that subject. That endorsement I make. 

THE COLORED RACE. 

As a Nation our duty compels that by every constitutional and rea- 
sonable means the material and educational condition of the colored race 
be advanced. This we owe to ourselves as well as to them. As the 
result of a course of events that can never be reversed, they are a part 
of our civilization; their prosperity is our prosperity; their debasement 
would be our misfortune. The Republican party, therefore, will offer 
every encouragement to the thrift, industry and intelligence that will 
better their prospect of higher attainment. 

ARMY AND NAVY AND MERCHANT MARINE. 

1 believe in the maintenance of such an army, the upbuilding of such 
a navy as will be the guarantee of the protection of American citizens 
and American interests everywhere, and an omen of peace ; that at every 
exposed point we may be so fortified that no power on earth may be 
tempted to molest us. I believe in the restoration of the American 
merchant marine and in rendering whatever financial aid may be neces- 
sary to accomplish this purpose. 

I approve the movement for the conservation of our natural re- 
sources ; the fostering of friendly foreign relations ; the enforcement of 
our Civil Service Law, and the enactment of such statutes as will more 
securely and more effectively preserve the public health. 

ADHERENCE TO ROOSEVELT POLICIES. 

Our platform, as it should do, pledges adherence to the policies of 
President Roosevelt ; . promises to continue the work inaugurated during 
his administration, to insure to persons and property every proper safe- 
guard and all necessary strengthening of administrative methods will be 
provided to furnish efficient inspection and supervision, and prompt right 
ing of every injustice, discrimination and wrong. 

I have not touched upon every plank of our splendid platform, but 
I reiterate my full and unqualified approval of its every promise. 



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NO CLASS LEGISLATION. 

I emphasize as my party's creed and my faith that in legislation and 
administration favor should be extended to no class, no sect, no race, 
no section as opposed to another. To foster class hatred, to foster dis- 
content, is un-Republican and un-American. Our party stands on the 
declaration that all men are created with equal rights and it will have 
no part in the enactment or execution of any law that does not apply 
alike to all good American citizens, whatever their calling or wherever 
they live. It will allow no man in our land to have advantage in law 
over any other man. It offers no safeguard to capital that is not guar- 
anteed to labor; no protection to the workman that is not insured to 
his employer. It would offer to each and to both in pursuit of health 
and happiness and prosperity every possible advantage. 

The work that has been given the Republican party to do has been 
of immense importance. Much of that work has been fully accomplished; 
some has yet to be completed. Republican declarations once in our 
platform and no longer there, are omitted because they have become 
accomplished facts. On the other hand, Democratic declarations have 
been abandoned because the voters have pronounced them to be unwise 
and unsafe and unsuited to our times and our country. 

THE PEOPLE RULE. 

"Shall the people rule?" is declared by the Democratic platform and 
candidate to be "the overshadowing issue * * * now under discus- 
sion." It is no issue. Surely the people shall rule, surely the people 
have ruled ; surely the people do rule. No party rules. The party, com- 
missioned by the people, is simply the instrument to execute the people's 
will, and from that party which does not obey their expressed will, or 
which lacks the wisdom to lead successfully, the people will withdraw 
their commission. 

For half a century, with but two exceptions, the people have com- 
missioned the Republican party to administer the national Government ; 
commissioned it because its declared principles appealed to their best 
judgment; commissioned it because the common sense of the American 
people scented danger in Democratic policies. Ours always has been, 
always must be, a Government of the people. That party will, after 
March 4 next, execute old laws and enact new ones as in November it 
is commissioned by the people to do. That commission will be from an 
untrammeled American electorate. Shame on the party which, shame 
on . the candidate who, insults the American people by suggestion or 
declaration that a majority of its electorate is venal. The American voter, 
with rare exception, in casting his ballot, is guided by his best judgment, 
by his desire to conserve his own and the public weal. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 241 



THE OVERSHADOWING ISSUE AND PARTY RECORD. 

The overshadowing issue of the campaign really is : shall the ad- 
ministration of President Roosevelt be approved; shall a party of dem- 
onstrated capacity in administrative affairs be continued in power, shall 
the reins of government be placed in experienced hands, or do the people 
prefer to trust their destinies to an aggregation of experimental mal- 
contents and theorists, whose only claim to a history is a party name 
they pilfered. 

With a record of four decades of wise legislation ; two score years 
of faithful administration ; offering its fulfilled pledges as a guaranty of 
its promises for the future, the Republican party appeals to the people 
.and, with full confidence in their wisdom and patriotism, awaits the 
rendition of the November verdict. 



APPENDIX 



THE PRESS 



In the section of the convention hall, reserved for the use of the 
Press, the following were assigned seats: 

Name of Paper. City. 

Beacon Journal Akron, Ohio. 

Journal • ...... J : . Albany j' N. Y. 

Star Tucson,' Arizona. 

American Telephone and Telegraph Company... Chicago, Illinois. 

Associated Press 

Journal Atlanta, Georgia. 

Constitution Atlanta, Georgia. 

American Review of Reviews 

Appleton's Magazine 

American Magazine 

American Press Association 

American Economist 

American Boy 

Associated Prohibition Press 

Daily News Aurora, Illinois. 

American Bell Telephone Company 

American Chicago, Illinois. 

Appeal To Reason 

Abendpost Detroit, Michigan. 

Evening Transcript Boston, Mass. 

American Boston , Mass. 

Traveler Boston, Mass. 

Record and Advertiser Boston, Mass. 

Herald Boston, Mass. 

Globe Boston, Mass. 

Post Boston , Mass. 

Times Buffalo, New York. 

News Buffalo, New York. 

Express Buffalo, New York. 

Commercial Buffalo, New York. 

American Baltimore , Maryland. 

Sun Baltimore, Maryland. 

News Baltimore , Maryland. 

Standard-Union Brooklyn, New York. 

Times Brooklyn, New York. 

Eagle Brooklyn, New York. 

Age-Herald Birmingham, Alabama. 

Gazette Burlington, Iowa. 

Journal Boston, Mass. 

Republican Binghamton, New York, 

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Name of Paper. City. 

Tribune Bay City, Michigan. 

Tribune Chicago, Illinois. 

Staats-Zeitung Chicago, Illinois. 

N ews Chicago , Illinois. 

Evening Post Chicago, Illinois. 

Inter-Ocean Chicago, Illinois. 

Journal Chicago, Illinois. 

Record-Herald Chicago, Illinois. 

Freie Press Chicago, Illinois. 

Evening American Chicago , Illinois. 

Examiner Chicago, Illinois. 

Cologne Gazette 

Abendpost & Sonntagpost Chicago, Illinois. 

Times-Star Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Post Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Commercial-Tribune Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Dispatch Columbus, Ohio. 

Citizen Columbus, Ohio. 

Press Cleveland , Ohio. 

Plain-Dealer Cleveland, Ohio. 

News Cleveland, Ohio. 

Leader Cleveland, Ohio. 

Repository Canton , Ohio. 

Nonpareil Council Bluffs , Iowa. 

Advertiser Clinton, Iowa. 

LTtalia Chicago, Illinois. 

State Journal Columbus, Ohio. 

Post-Telegram Camden, New Jersey. 

Collier's New York. 

Commoner Lincoln , Nebraska. 

Century Magazine 

Chicago Newspaper Union 

Chicago Israelite 

Freie Presse Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Press Post Columbus, Ohio. 

Cleveland Journal Cleveland, Ohio. 

City Press Association 

News Detroit, Michigan. 

Free Press Detroit, Michigan. 

Journal Detroit, Michigan. 

Times Detroit, Michigan. 

Denver Republican Denver, Colorado. 

Register and Leader Des Moines, Iowa. 

News Des Moines, Iowa. 

Capital Des Moines, Iowa. 

Times Journal .' Dubuque, Iowa. 

Journal Dayton , Ohio. 

News Dayton, Ohio. 

Daytona-Halifax Journal 

Dziennik Naradoway 

Daily Gazette Phoenix, Arizona. 

Journal-News Evansville, Indiana. 

Courier Evansville, Indiana. 

Times Erie. Pa. 




£44 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF: THE 

Name of Paper. City. 

Herald El Paso, Texas. 

Frankfurter Zeitung Wilhelm Cohusta'edt f 

News Fort Wayne, Indiana. 

Forest Crissey 

Press Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

Herald Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

News Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

News Galveston and Dallas, Texas 

Hearst News Service 

Courant Hartford, Connecticut. 

Post Houston , Texas. 

Harper's Weekly 

Hamlandet 

Houston Chronicle Houston , Texas. 

Home Herald 

Hungarian papers New York -City. 

Herald New York. 

News Indianapolis, Indiana. 

Star Indianapolis, Indiana. 

Sun Indianapolis, Indiana. 

Reporter Independence, Kansas.. 

Irish American 

Illinois Idea 

Tribune Johnstown, Pa. 

Jewish Morning Journal New York City. 

1 ewish Daily News New York Citj': . . 

Judge New York City. 

Citizen Press Jackson , Michigan . 

Joliet News Joliet, Illinois, . 

Jewish Daily Courier 

Journal Quincy, Illinois. 

Gazette Galena , Illinois. 

Journal Kansas City, Missouri.. 

Times Kansas. City, Missouri.. 

Star Kansas. City, . Missouri.. 

Telegraph Kalamazoo, . Michigan. 

Sentinel Knoxville, Tennessee. 

Tribune Kokomo, Indiana. 

Times London , England. 

Standard London, England. 

Daily Mail London ,. England. 

Times Los Angeles, Calif. 

Lee Newspaper Syndicate 

Courier-Journal Louisville, Kentucky.. 

Leader Lexington, . , ..... 

Times ,.. Leavenworth, .Kansas. ... 

Post Louisville,, . Kentucky. 

Journal Logansport. Indiana. 

Times Louisville, Kentucky. 

Leslie's Weekly New York. 

Lafayette J ournal Lafayette., Indiana. 

Herald , Louisville, Kentucky. 

Lincoln Daily Star Lincoln , , Nebraska. 

Tribune . ■ • •' Minneapolis,,. Minnesota.. 

Journal Minneapolis,. Minnesota,. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 245 

Name of Paper. City. 

Journal Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

News Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

Sentinel Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

Free Press Milwaukee , Wisconsin. 

Courier Madison , Indiana. 

Memphis Commercial Appeal Memphis, Tennessee. 

Marshalltown Reflector Marshalltown, Iowa. 

Press New York. 

Evening Post New York. 

Globe ► New York. 

World New York. 

Evening World New York. 

American New York. 

Sun and Evening Sun New York. 

Telegram New York. 

Tribune New York. 

Times New York. 

Evening Journal New York. 

Staats Zeitung New York. 

Evening Mail New York. 

Bolletina Delia Sera New York. 

Journal of Commerce New York. 

Journal-Courier New Haven , New York. . 

Banner Nashville, Tennessee. 

Tennessean Nashville , Tennessee. 

American Nashville, Tennessee. 

News Newark, New Jersey. 

Star Newark, New Jersey. 

National Press Bureau 

Telegraph New York. 

Wall Street Journal New York. 

Times New Orleans. 

News-Press St. Joseph, Missouri.. 

Nashville Home Journal 

Northwestern '.'. Oshkosh. Wisconsin. 

News '. Omaha, Nebraska. 

Bee Omaha, Nebraska. 

World-Herald Omaha, Nebraska. 

The Outlook 

Outing Magazine ! 

Journal Ottawa, Illinois. 

Telegraph Philadelphia, Pa. 

Bulletin Philadelphia, Pa. 

Press '..'. .... Philadelphia, Pa. 

North American Philadelphia, Pa. 

Inquirer '...' Philadelphia, Pa. 

Record '. : Philadelphia, Pa. 

Public Ledger .......'....'..'..'.'.. Philadelphia , Pa. 

Post and Sun Pittsburg, Pa. 

Gazette-Times Pittsburg, Pa. 

Leader Pittsburg, Pa. 

Chronicle-Telegraph Pittsburg, Pa. 

Press Pittsburg, Pa. 

Dispatch '. Pittsburg, Pa. 

Journal and Evening Bulletin Providence. Rhode island!- 



.246 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

Name of Paper. City. 

Journal Portland, Oregon. - 

Oregonian Portland, Oregon. 

Eagle Pittsfield, Mass. 

JHerald-Transcript Peoria, Illinois. 

Polish Newspaper Association 

Postal Telegraph & Cable Co 

President's Operator 

Sentinel Parkersburg, West Virginia. 

Star Peoria , Illinois. 

Journal Peoria, Illinois. 

Daily Republican Phoenix, Arizona. 

Pokrok Zapadu ... 

Polish National Alliance 

Whig Quincy, Illinois. 

Post Express Rochester, New York. 

News and Observer Raleigh. 

Reuter's Telegraph Company 

News Leader Richmond. 

Times Dispatch Richmond. 

Palladium Richmond. 

Item Richmond. 

Daily Press Riverside, Calif. 

Republic , St. Louis, Mo. 

Westliche Post St. Louis, Mo. 

Times St. Louis, Mo. 

Star-Chronicle St. Louis, Mo. 

Globe-Democrat St. Louis, Mo. 

Dispatch St. Louis, Mo. 

Pioneer Press '. St. Paul , Minnesota. 

News St. Paul, Minnesota. 

Dispatch St. Paul, Minnesota. 

Chronicle San Francisco, Calif. 

Call San Francisco. 

Herald Salt Lake City. 

Post-Standard Syracuse, New York. 

Journal Syracuse, New York. 

Courier-Herald Saginaw, Michigan. 

Union Springfield, Mass. 

Republican Springfield, Mass. 

Bee Sacramento, Calif. 

Post-Intelligencer Seattle, Washington. 

Herald Syracuse, New York. 

News Springfield, Ohio. 

Journal Sioux City, Iowa. 

Tribune Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Telegram Salt Lake City, Utah. . 

Tribune Sioux City, Iowa. 

Times Seattle, Washington. 

Scientific American 

Svornost 

Blade Toledo, Ohio. 

Times Toledo, Ohio. 

News Bee , Toledo, Ohio. 

Express Toledo, Ohio. 

'Times Troy, New York. 



FOURTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 247 

Name of Paper. City. 

Globe Toronto , Canada. 

United Press Associations 

Herald Dispatch Utica, New York. 

Star Washington, D. C. 

Post Washington, D. C. 

Times Washington, D. C. 

Herald Washington, D. C. 

Woman's National Daily St. Louis, Mo. 

Observer Washington, Pa. 

Western Union Telegraph Company 

The World Today Chicago , Illinois. 

Journal Washington, Pa. 

Telegram Youngstown , Ohio. 

Signal Zanesville, Ohio. 

Courier Zanesville, Ohio. 

Times-Recorder Zanesville, Ohio. 

N. W. Christian Advocate 

News Mt. Vernon, Ohio. 

Anzeiger Louisville, Kentucky. 

Germania Milwaukee, Wisconsin- 
Conservator 

Signal Kansas City, Mo. 



INDEX. 



249 



INDEX 



A. 

Ade, John, invited to seat on platform 89 

Adjournment, motion for sine die by J. W. Lyons... 201 

Agnus, Felix, resolution offered by 197 

Angell, R. H., remarks by 107 

Atlierton. D. B., motion made by 89 

B. 

Baker, Henry, presented to the convention 54 

Barrows, Oscar G., telegram from 198 

Bentley, F. R., appointed Tally Clerk 46-82 

Berg, Albert, appointed Reading Clerk 46-82 

Beveridge, A. J., motion by 89 

seconds motion to make nomination unanimous 183 

Blumenberg, M. W., Official Reporter. . 46-82 

Bookwalter, C. A., remarks by, seconding nomination of Mr. 

Fairbanks 153 

Boutell, Henry S., speech of, nominating Mr. Cannon 142 

seconds motion to make nomination unanimous 183 

Brooker. Chas. F., report of Committee on Permanent Organiza- 
tion' submitted by 81 

Brumder, W. C, seconds motion to make nomination unanimous... 183 

resolution of thanks offered by 198 

Buckingham, G. T., remarks by 104 

Burke. James F., minority report on Rules submitted by 95 

remarks by 97 

resolution offered by 52 

Burrows, J. C, chosen Temporary Chairman 28 

address as Temporary Chairman 28 

address as Chairman Notification Committee 233 

named Chairman of Committee to notify Vice President.. 197 

Burton, Theodore E., address placing in nomination Mr. Taft 156 

C. 

Campaign Contributions, vote on publicity of 138 

Cannon, Joseph G., placed in nomination for President 142 

speech by, seconding nomination of Mr. Sherman 188 

Clark, C. H.. motion to adopt Temporary Organization 46 



250 INDEX. 

Clayton, Powell, resolution offered by 91 

Clerk — 

Reading 46-82 

Tally 46-82 

Cochems, H. F., speech by, nominating Mr. LaFollette 171 

Cooper, H. A., minority report on Resolutions submitted by 125 

remarks by 130 

Committee — 

Advisory, of National 20 

Chicago Local 22 

Credentials, names of 48 

report of, submitted 55 

report of, agreed to ' 81 

Executive, of National 20 

National, names of 21-89 

vacancies, how filled 91 

Notification, Presidential . 199 

vice-presidential 200 

Permanent Organization, names of 49 

report of 81 

Resolutions, names of 51 

report of 115 

minority report of 125 

Rules and Order of Business, names of 50 

report of 92 

minority report of 95 

Committees, resolution by C. I. Long, relative to appointment of.. 46 

Connor, J. D., presented to the Convention 54 

Crane, W. Murray, motion by, to make nomination of Mr. Sher- 
man unanimous 197 

D. 

Daugherty, Harry M., remarks by 54 

Deneen, C. S., appointed to escort Permanent Chairman 83 

Doorkeeper, Chief 46-82 

E. 

Ekern, H. L., remarks by 133 

Emory, W. O., speech seconding nomination of Mr. Foraker 163 

seconds motion to make nomination of Mr. Taft unani- 
mous 183 

Evans, H. Clay, seconds nomination of Mr. Sherman 195 

F. 

Fairbanks, Charles W., placed in nomination for President 148 



INDEX. 251; 

Flynn, D. T., seconds nomination of Mr. Sherman 194 

Foraker, Joseph Benson, placed in nomination for President 162' 

Fordney, J. W., remarks seconding nomination of Mr. Cannon 147 

seconds motion to make nomination unanimous 183- 

Fort, John F., seconds motion to make nomination of Mr. Sher- 
man unanimous 197 

Fulton. C. W., motion by, relating to G. H. Williams 114 

report of Committee on Credentials submitted by 55 



Gallinger, J. H., resolution relating to Notification Committee 

offered by 197" 

Guild, Curtis, placed in nomination for Vice-President 189 

Gleason, Lafayette B., chosen Temporary Chief Assistant Secretary 46-82 



H. 

Hanly, J. Frank, address of, nominating Mr. Fairbanks for President 148 

Harger, Charles M., appointed Assistant Secretary 46-82 

Henry, Thomas D., telegram from 198 

Herrick, Myron T., remarks by 101 

Hill, Rev. John Wesley, appointed Chaplain 46-82 

prayer offered by 113 

Hinds, Asher C, Parliamentarian 46-82 

Hoefele. Philip M., appointed Assistant Secretary 46-82 

Hollis, Allen, appointed Assistant Secretary 46-82' 

Hopkins, A. J., report of Committee on Resolutions submitted by.. 115 

remarks by 135 

Hughes, Charles E., placed in nomination for President 154 

I. 

Irish-American Republican League, telegram from '... 198 



J- 

Jackson, John H., Messenger to the Secretary 46-82 

Johnson, H. L., remarks by 105 



K. 

Keifer, J. Warren, remarks by 100 

Knight, George A., speech seconding nomination of Mr. Taft 160 

Knox, Philander C, placed in nomination for President 165- 



252 INDEX. 



L. 

La Follette, Robert M., placed in nomination for President 171 

Lockney, H. L., amendment offered by 110 

remarks by , 134 

Lodge, Henry Cabot, address of, as Permanent Chairman 83 

chosen Permanent Chairman 82 

motion made by 47 

named as Chairman Notification Committee 197 

remarks placing in nomination Mr. Guild for Vice-Presi- 
dent 189 

Long, Chester I., resolution offered by 46 

Lyons, Judson W., motion for final adjournment by 201 

M. 

M alloy, John R., call for the convention read by 26 

chosen Temporary Secretary 46 

chosen General Secretary 82 

Mason, Stephen R., Chief of Doorkeepers 46-82 

Messenger to the Chairman, Empsirdell Stone 46-82 

to the Secretary, John H. Jackson 46-82 

Messengers, appointed .7 46-82 

Miller, Clyde W., appointed Tally Clerk 46-82 

Mudd, S. E, remarks by 105 

Muldoon, Rt. Rev. P. J., appointed Chaplain 46 

prayer offered by 25 

Murphy, Franklin, placed in nomination for Vice-President 192 

Murphy, Martin J., telegram from 198 

Murphy, R. S.. address placing in nomination Mr. Knox 165 

Mc. 

McCarter, Thos. N.. speech nominating Mr. Murphy for Vice- 
President 192 

McCoy, C. B., remarks placing in nomination Mr. Foraker 162 

McGee, C. A. A., speech seconding nomination of Mr. La Follette. . 177 

N. 

National Committee — 

Advisory Committee of 20 

Executive Committee of 20 

names of 21 

officers of 20 

!New, H'arry S., convention called to order by 25 

gavel presented to 26 



INDEX 



O. 



253 



'O'Beirne, James R., telegram from 198 

Officers of the Convention 5 

Officers, Temporary '. . . 46 

Official Reporter 40 

Olmsted, Merlin E., motion by, that J. C. Burrows be selected 

Temporary Chairman 28 

seconded nomination of Mr. Sherman 194 

'Osborn. Chase S., motion by, limiting speeches 185 

remarks by, seconding nomination of Mr. Guild for Vice- 
President 190 



Penrose. Boies, seconds motion to make nomination unanimous.... 183 

Permanent Chairman, H. C. Lodge chosen 82 

address of 83 

Permanent Organization, Committee on 49 

report of 82 

adopted 82 

President of U. S., nominating speech for — 

Mr. Cannon by H. S. Boutell 142 

Mr. Fairbanks by J. Frank Hanly 148 

Mr, Foraker by C B. McCoy 162 

Mr. Hughes by S. L. Woodford 154 

Mr. Knox by R. S. Murphy 165 

Mr. La Follette by H. F. Cochems 171 

Mr. Taft by T. E. Burton 156 

ballot for 180 

Proceedings of convention, publication of 197 

Prector, A. G.. given seat on platform 54 

R. 

Railroads, vote on physical valuation of 139 

Raymond, Samuel B 22 

Reading Clerks ' 46-82 

Remmel, H. L., remarks by 102 

Resolutions — 

(platform) adopted 142 

committee on 51 

report of committee on 115 

minority report of committee 125 

on representation 52 

vote on minority report 136 



254 INDEX. 

of thanks to city of Chicago 198 

of thanks to convention officers - 198 

Roth, John C ■ 22 

Rules — 

committee on 50 

resolution by Sereno E. Payne relative to 46 

report of 92 

minority report of . 95 

report of, adopted . 112 

S. 

Scarlet, James, remarks seconding nomination of Mr. Knox 171 

Schanfarber, Rabbi Tobias, appointed Chaplain 46 

prayer by 184 

Secretaries, Assistant 46-82 

Secretary, Chief Assistant, Lafayette B. Gleason. 46-82 

Secretary, General, John R. M'alloy, chosen 82 

Secretary, Temporary, John R. Malloy, chosen. .;...■ 46 

Seitz. W. J., appointed Reading Clerk 46-82" 

Senators, U. S., direct vote on election of 140' 

Sherman, James S., address accepting nomination •.„--; 237 

biographical sketch of 19 

declared nominated for Vice-President 196 

placed in nomination for Vice President . 186 

Skinner, Harry, seconds nomination of Mr. Sherman 194 

Slemp, C. B.. seconds nomination of Mr. Sherman 195 

Smith, Charles Brooks, appointed Assistant Secretary. 46-82 

Smith, Ernest Walker, appointed Assistant Secretary 46-82 

Steele, W. A., appointed Tally Clerk 46-82 

Stone, Empsirdell, Messenger to the Chairman 46.-82* 

Stone, William F.. chosen Temporary Sergeant-at-Arms. 46 

sergeant-at-arms chosen 82 

T. 

Taft, William H., address accepting nomination for President.... 203 

biographical sketch of . . ,. 7 

nominated for president 183 

placed in nomination for President 156* 

Tally Clerk 46-82 

Thayer, Ed. P., appointed Temporary Chief Assistant Sergeant- 
at-Arms • 46 

chosen Chief Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms.... 82 

Tobin, M. J., appointed Assistant Secretary 46-82 

Tripp, W. H., invited to seat on platform 89' 



INDEX. 



255 



U. 

TJpham, Fred W., gavel presented by 26 

V. 

'Vice-President, nominating speeches for — 

James S. Sherman by T. L. Woodruff 186 

Curtis Guild by H. C. Lodge 189 

Franklin Murphy by T. N. McCarter 192 

ballot for 195 

"Vice-Presidents, Honorary 90 

W. 

Wadsworth, J. W., Jr., remarks by 104 

Ward, W. L.. temporary presiding officer 197 

Warmoth, H. C, remarks by 105 

Warner, William, Chairman Presidential Notification Committee. . . 197 

address as Chairman Notification Committee 202 

Warren, F. E., report of Committee on Rules and Order of Busi- 
ness submitted by 92 

Warren, R. L., resolution offered by 54 

Waters, Rev. W. O., appointed Chaplain 46 

prayer offered by 53 

Watkins, Roy M., appointed Tally Clerk 46-82 

Watson, J. E., remarks by 106 

Williams, George H., invited to seat on platform 114 

Williamson. Thomas W., appointed Reading Clerk 46-82 

Willson, A. E., remarks by 98 

remarks seconding nomination of Mr. Sherman 189 

resolution of thanks offered by 198 

Wilson, George A., appointed Reading Clerk 46-82 

"Woodford, Stewart L., appointed to escort Permanent Chairman.. 83 

address placing in nomination Mr. Hughes 154 

motion by, to make nomination of W. H. Taft unanimous . . 183 
"Woodruff, Timothy L., speech nominating Mr. Sherman for Vice- 
President 186 

Y. 

Yellowlev, A. B.. seconds nomination of Mr. Sherman 192 



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